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Covid-19 toll in Tamil Nadu crosses 4,000-mark; 5,879 new cases

Covid-19 toll in Tamil Nadu crosses 4,000-mark; 5,879 new cases
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CHENNAI: With one death short of hundred, the cumulative toll in Tamil Nadu breached the 4,000 mark to 4,034 on Saturday. The state added 5,879 cases that pushed the case tally to 2,51,738. The number of active cases however came down to 56,738 from 57,968 on Friday.
The case fatality rate stood at 1.6% in the state and the recovery rate was 75.8% on Monday.
“The doubling time for both deaths and cases have gone up. The doubling time for deaths in above 25 days compared to about 14- 16 days a month ago. The bed occupancy levels have also come down across the state,” said state health secretary J Radhakrishnan. The most common comorbidity reported by hospitals was a combination of diabetes and hypertension.
While nine of the 99 people who succumbed to infection due to no comorbidities, at least three people whose deaths were reported on Saturday were brought dead to hospitals indicating late detection of the virus. Public health experts also point out that some deaths continued to be reported late. For instance, a 62-year-old woman who was declared “brought dead” by doctors at the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital on July 16 was reported to the Covid registry on Monday.
Hotspot Chennai continued to report the maximum number of cases and deaths. The city's total tally crossed 1 lakh with 1,00,877 cases.
On Saturday, 1074 fresh cases and 27 more deaths were reported, while three adjoining districts together reported 987 cases and 13 deaths. Kancheepuram reported 368 cases compared to 485 on Friday, while Chengalpet and Tiruvallur reported 314 and 305 cases respectively. Tiruvallur reported seven deaths. With this, the total cases reported in the region came down to 2,061 compared to 2,205 on Friday, but the deaths went up to 40 from 34. The active cases in Chennai region was 22,351. The other northern districts to record a high number of cases were Thiruvannamalai (242), Vellore (197), Cuddalore (182), Villupuram (158) and
Ranipet (116), taking the total number of cases reported in the region to 3038 and deaths to 48. There were 31379 active cases in the eleven northern districts.
Among the 10th southern districts, there were 1758 fresh cases and 15,605 active cases. The districts reported 38 deaths. While Theni(327), Virudhunagar(286), Thoothukudi(243), Tirunelveli(181), Tenkasi(178), Madurai (166) and Kanyakumari (198) recorded cases in three digits, Dindigul
(81), Sivaganga(61) and Ramnad(37) recorded cases in two digits. Madurai recorded ten deaths, while Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari recorded six deaths each.
The eight central districts, which together recorded 564 cases had 4,901 active cases. Barring Thanjavur(167), Trichy (136) and Pudukottai(91) all other districts recorded cases below 50. There were no deaths recorded in the region. In the west, Coimbatore continued to record the highest number of cases and deaths. On Saturday, the district had 238 cases and 10 deaths. Erode
(8) and Dharmapuri(9) recorded a single digit rise, the other districts in the region reported cases in two digits. Krishnagiri had 74 cases, Salem(51), Nilgiris and Tiruppur had 36 cases each, while Namakkal reported 32 cases. While Salem had two deaths, Tiruppur reported one death. At the end of the day 7,010 were discharged, taking the total number of people cured to 1,90,966.
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