A total of 141 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in Coimbatore district on Wednesday.
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The district had 1,500 active cases of the disease on Wednesday, while 143 persons recovered.
The deaths in the district increased to 2,390 after six more persons died of COVID-19.
Coimbatore district had a test positivity rate (TPR) of 1.5 % on Tuesday when it reported 127 new cases.
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Tiruppur district reported 67 fresh cases, which took its case tally to 94,596.
The overall toll touched 971 following the reporting of a death by the Health Department. The district had 815 active cases and 74 patients from the district recovered from COVID-19 on Wednesday. Positivity rate of Tiruppur district based on Tuesday’s data was 1.5%.
In the Nilgiris, 19 persons tested positive.
With the latest infections, the total number of confirmed cases in the district stands at 33,323. The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the district stood at 208 in the Nilgiris on Wednesday while 330 persons are undergoing treatment.