With 24 persons testing positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, the number of districts reporting fresh infections dropped to six. Chennai, after recording fewer than 10 cases in the last two days, reported 11 cases.
Apart from Chennai, fresh cases were reported in Chengalpattu, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Kancheepuram and Salem. After recording a single case on Monday, Chengalpattu logged five fresh cases. Kancheepuram reported four cases and Cuddalore two. Coimbatore and Salem logged one each.
So far, the State has recorded a total of 34,52,955 cases. Deaths continued to be nil in the State. A total of 31 persons were discharged in the State, taking the total number of recoveries to 34,14,674.
Presently, 256 persons were under treatment in the State. Of this, Chennai accounted for 114 active cases, Chengalpattu 25 and Coimbatore 18.
The number of samples tested fell to 19,156. With this, a total of 6,57,13,531 samples were tested in the State. The overall positivity rate stood at 0.1%. According to Monday’s data, Chennai had the highest positivity rate at 0.4%, while Kancheepuram and Krishnagiri had a positivity rate of 0.3% each.
33,237 vaccinated
COVID-19 vaccines were administered to 33,237 persons on Tuesday. This included 12,259 children aged 12-14 and 8,444 persons aged 18-44. According to the daily report issued by the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, the total coverage of government and private vaccination centres stood at 10,51,91,772. So far, 7,54,472 precautionary doses were administered in the State.
