Summary:
Chennai, Nov 30 (PTI) Chennai recorded a slight increase in new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday as 720 cases were added to Tamil Nadu"s tally, pushing the caseload to 27,26,917.
The new cases included two returnees from Bihar.
As many as nine people succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 36,481, a medical bulletin said.
Recoveries eclipsed new infections with 758 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 26,82,192 leaving 8,244 active infections.
A total of 1,00,048 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 5,42,70,347.
Chennai, which reported 105 cases on Monday, clocked 115 new cases today followed by Coimbatore with 109 cases, while the remaining was scattered across other districts.