State’s COVID-19 tally crosses 9 lakh; 11 more persons die

3,672 new cases reported; 1,335 test positive in Chennai, 376 in Coimbatore

Tamil Nadu’s overall COVID-19 tally crossed nine lakh on Monday as another 3,672 persons tested positive for the infection. Till date, 9,03,479 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the State. It has taken 111 days for the State to add one lakh more cases to its overall tally. Tamil Nadu had crossed eight lakh cases on December 14, 2020. The State reached another milestone on Monday as the total sample count crossed two crore. With the testing of 80,056 more samples, the overall samples tested so far reached 2,00,12,235. Another 11 persons succumbed to the infection, taking the toll to 12,789. Of this, Chennai accounted for seven fatalities, while Chengalpattu, Madurai, Nagapattinam and Vellore recorded one death each. Of this, two persons did not have co-morbidities — a 50-year-old man from Chennai who died at the Government Corona Hospital on April 4 due to COVID-19 pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and septic shock, and a 62-year-old man from Chennai who died at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on April 3 due to COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure.