2,342 fresh cases, 16 more deaths in T.N.

Chennai city continues to see sharp increase in COVID-19 cases with 874 persons testing positive

On Tuesday, when Tamil Nadu reported 2,342 fresh cases of COVID-19, the number of fatalities rose to 16. This took the State’s tally of cases to 8,84,094 and toll to 12,700. Chennai recorded 874 new cases. The 16 fatalities included a 23-year-old woman from Coimbatore. She had no co-morbidities and was admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on March 26. However, she died the next day owing to bilateral bronchopneumonia and respiratory failure. Six persons in their 50s died of infection. One of them — a 53-year-old man from Chennai — did not have co-morbidities. He died at the Government Corona Hospital within 25 minutes of arrival on March 28 due to severe COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure. He had tested positive on March 23. There were four deaths in Chennai, three in Thanjavur, two each in Chengalpattu, Coimbatore and Kancheepuram and one each in Dindigul, Nagapattinam and Tiruvallur.