TN registers close to 25K cases of Covid-19, 197 deaths

TN registers close to 25K cases of Covid-19, 197 deaths

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:07.05.2021

Tamil Nadu logged 195 deaths and 24,898 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, when all districts barring Ariyalur and Perambalur reported more than 100 cases. The surge left the state with 1.3 lakh active cases as the case tally crossed 12.9 lakh. The cumulative death toll reached 14,974.

In the last one week, the state has added 1,041 Covid -19 deaths and 1.4 lakh new cases. This includes 319 deaths and 42,727 new cases in Chennai. The city now has 33316 active cases in its registry.

On Thursday, four districts reported more than 1000 new cases, a dozen of them had more than 500 cases each. Chennai continued to report the maximum number of cases in the state, followed by Coimbatore, Chengalpet and Tiruvallur. While Chennai had 6,678 new cases, Coimbatore recorded 2068, Chengalpet registered 2039 and Tiruvallur had 1560. Madurai added 996 and Kancheepuram had (826). Ariyalur and Perambalur reported 88 and 60 cases respectively.

Together the four districts in the Chennai region reported 11,113 cases and 110 deaths, leaving 54,847 still under treatment – just about the same number of active cases the entire state had on April 14. The other districts in the north reported 2376 new cases followed by 2072 in the central zone. While the western districts together reported 4770 new cases, 4565 Meanwhile, among 29 districts reported deaths, Chennai had 69 deaths, Chengalpet reported 16, followed by 14 in Kanyakumari, 13 in Kancheepuram and 12 in Tiruvallur. The Chennai region reported 110 deaths and the rest of the north added another16. The ten districts in the south reported 35 deaths, followed by 20 in the central zone and 14 in the west.

1,510 cases in Pondy

Puducherry reported1,510 fresh cases on Thursday even as 779 patients recovered, taking the total number of active cases to12,430. Of them,10,394 patients are in home isolation and treatment. The number of patients succumbing to the infection crossed 900 on Thursday. Eighteen patients including six women died of the infection in the last 24 hours ending at10am on Thursday taking the death toll to

901. Puducherry headquarters reported17 deaths while Yanam one. Puducherry headquarters has the maximum fatalities with 737 followed by Karaikal (96), Yanam (54) and Mahe (14). The fatality rate of the infection stood at 1.4%. TNN