Covid-19 update: Tamil Nadu reported 2522 new cases on Tuesday

  • | Wednesday | 28th October, 2020

4,029 patients got discharged on Tuesday, pushing the total discharges after treatment tally to 6,75,518, a health department bulletin said. Active cases, including those in isolation, are at 27,734.

Tamil Nadu reported 2,522 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the state’s overall infection tally to 7,14,235.

The state also reported 27 virus related deaths, pushing the total death toll to 10,983.

4,029 patients got discharged on Tuesday, pushing the total discharges after treatment tally to 6,75,518, a health department bulletin said. Active cases, including those in isolation, were at 27,734.

The state has reported less than 3,000 fresh infections for the fourth successive day.

Among districts, Chennai led with 695 new cases, followed by Coimbatore 209, Salem 146, Chengalpet 144 and Tiruvallur 115.

Dindigul recorded the least with two patients contracting the disease.

Chennai accounted for 1,97,077 COVID-19 infections of the state`s over 7.14 lakh cases, besides accounting for 3,607 deaths of the total 10,983 toll.

Testing of samples stood at 70,687, totalling to 96,60,430 getting examined till date.

A private lab was accorded approval to conduct COVID-19 testing, taking the total number of facilities operating in the State to 201 of which 135 is owned by private and 66 government.

Tamil Nadu does not use Rapid Antigen Diagnostic Tests (RADT) and all the tests are RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction based).


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