After high, city Covid numbers go below 2,000

After high, city Covid numbers go below 2,000

Share In Daily Cases Dropped To 43%

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:  05.07.2020

A day after its tally crossed one lakh, Tamil Nadu recorded 4,280 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday taking the total active cases to 44,956. The death toll rose to 1,450 with 65 more fatalities reported. This included 37 in Chennai, which pushed the city’s death toll to 1,033.

As the state shows a steady climb in new infections, Chennai dropped below 2,000 cases for the first time in days, registering 1,842 fresh cases. The total number of people still under treatment in the city is 24,195. Though the city has 62% share in the total number of cases, its share in the daily cases has dropped to 43%. Chennai's three neighbouring districts Chengalpet (215), Kanchipuram (134) and Tiruvallur (251) continued to register a sharp rise in cases, together adding 600 new cases and logging 11 deaths.

Epidemiologists indicated several other districts had started to show a spike in infections. These included Madurai (352 fresh cases), Ranipet (104), Ramanathapuram (149), Thiruvannamalai (173), Coimbatore (67), Tirunelveli (61), Virudhunagar (100), Tuticorin (64) and Trichy (83). This, experts had earlier pointed out, is the natural progression of the epidemic in the state. Virologists indicated that cases in the districts would rise a lot more before the Covid curve flattened in the state.

Among the total 65 deaths reported on Saturday, six had comorbidities. The oldest casualty was is a 92-old man from Ramanathapuram and the youngest a 29-year-old man from Chennai. Both had comorbidities. The report said three patients died a day before their Covid test results arrived.

On Saturday, 2,214 people left the hospital after successful treatment taking the total number of people discharged to 60,592 in the state.