Daily case count below 25,000
The Hindu
COVID-19 claims 460; new cases total 2,062 in Chennai and 2,980 in Coimbatore
The daily count of SARS CoV-2 infections dropped below the 25,000-mark in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. A total of 24,405 people tested positive and 460 died of the infection, taking the tally of cases to 21,72,751 and toll to 25,665. The State tested a record number of 1,79,438 samples on Thursday, taking the total number of samples tested till date to 2,81,96,279. Coimbatore, which has been recording the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the State, saw its daily count drop below 3,000. The district reported 2,980 cases. In Chennai, 2,062 people tested positive for the virus. Three other districts in the western region continued to record move than 1,000 cases — Erode (1,671), Tiruppur (1,264) and Salem (1,253). There was a marginal rise in cases in Thanjavur as the district’s daily cases crossed 1,000. Chengalpattu and Tiruchi recorded 983 and 823 cases respectively. There were 801 cases in Namakkal.
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