No Covid deaths in Chennai for second consecutive day

No Covid deaths in Chennai for second consecutive day

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:11.10.2021

For the second consecutive day, not a single person in Chennai succumbed to Covid-19. Besides Chennai, another 29 districts in Tamil Nadu including Coimbatore reported no Covid-19 deaths on Sunday.

So far, a total of 35,783 have died of the virus in the state. This included 15 deaths reported on Sunday.

For more than two months, the state's case fatality ratio hasn't come down. It has hovered around 1.3%. It means for every 100 confirmed cases, at least one died of Covid-19.

But the number of fresh infections has continued to decline in Tamil Nadu. On Sunday, 1,329 tested positive for the virus.

Though Chennai reported the maximum number of cases (164), the test positivity rate (TPR) of the district remained unchanged at 0.8% this week, which was below the state's average of 0.9 %.

Coimbatore, which stood second on Sunday's infection chart with 157 fresh cases, has a slightly higher TPR of 1.3%. Erode is another western district with a similar TPR. Namakkal (64 new cases) in this region had the highest TPR of 2 % on Sunday.

"As the vaccine coverage has increased, the infection rate has reduced in 18 Tamil Nadu districts compared to last month and many were in western Tamil Nadu", said J Radhakrishnan, state health secretary.

However, those with fever should immediately contact the nearest hospital instead of self-medication, he told reporters on Sunday.

But on the flipside, the number of samples tested at TN labs has dropped last month. Earlier, it was above 1.55 lakh a day. But it has dropped to 1.4 lakh now.