TN reports 23,310 new cases of Covid-19; 6,291 in Chennai

TN reports 23,310 new cases of Covid-19; 6,291 in Chennai

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:06.05.2021

All districts in the state reported more than 100 cases on Wednesday, when Tamil Nadu added167 deaths and 23,310 new Covid-19 cases. This is the highest number of cases and deaths reported by the state since the beginning of the pandemic.

There were 1,28,311 patients in the active registry after hospitals discharged 20,062 patients. The case tally since March 2020 moved to 12.7 lakh and the cumulative death toll touched 14,779.

While hotspot Chennai reported 6,291 new cases (the highest in the state), Ariyalur and Perambalur -- the two districts that were reported fewer than 50 cases a day so far -- reported 112 and 114 cases respectively (the lowest ) on Wednesday. With 2,029 new cases Coimbatore, reported the highest number of cases after Chennai. There were 1755 new cases in Chengalpet and 1385 cases in Tiruvallur. Madurai reported 914 cases.

Overall at least 20 districts reported deaths. Chennai reported 58 deaths – also the maximum in the state, and Chengalpet district followed with 10. This included 10 from the Chengalpet Medical College and Hospital but these excluded the 13 deaths reported between Tuesday and Wednesday following dip in oxygen was not reported in the media bulletin. While Kanyakumari, Ranipet and Madurai reported two deaths each, Salem reported seven and Vellore reported six.

Health department officials said that the centre has still not revised the 280 MT of oxygen allotted to the state although the state’s requirement has increased to 420MT. The state has a capacity of producing 400 MT and has been drawing about 50MT from Puducherry and diverting another 50MT from industries, officials said. “We are pushing the centre to increase allocation to the state. This is something they agreed to do more than a week ago,” a senior official said.

While there were 52,992 active cases in the Chennai region, the other districts in the north reported 1874 new cases. The eight districts in the west together had 25634 active cases followed by 24054 cases in the South. The central region together reported 2,226 cases. Deaths in all the four zone have also gone up –north districts together had 107 deaths while south reported 27, West had 12 and Central districts together logged 27. Meanwhile, 56203 people took the vaccine on Wednesday. The daily vaccinations have been steadily coming down despite increase in cases.