119 deaths, 5,871 new Covid-19 cases across Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu added 119 deaths and 5,871 fresh Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, which took the cumulative toll to 5,278 and the case tally to 3,14,520. There were 52,929 people under treatment compared to 52,810 on Tuesday.
Death rates continue to remain high -- in Madurai it was 2.5%, in Chennai 2.1% and in Coimbatore 2%. While most cases and deaths continue to be reported from the northern districts followed by the 10 southern districts, cases were rising steadily in the western zone.Of the casualties, four people were ‘brought dead’ and a dozen of them had no comorbidities.

Chennai, the worst affected district, reported 993 cases and 20 deaths. The adjacent districts had 1,217 cases – Chengalpet (439), Tiruvallur (407) and Kancheepuram (371). This took the tally in the Chennai region to 2,210 cases. In the past 24 hours, the region reported 42 deaths, including 11 in Tiruvallur – the second highest in the state after Chennai. The seven other northern districts together reported 942 fresh cases and 13 deaths. Cuddalore (339), Ranipet (252), Tiruvannamalai (123) reported cases in three digits. The active cases in the Chennai region stood at 20,447, 38% of the total active cases in the state. Together, all the 11 northern districts have 55% (29,538) of active cases in the state.
The 10 southern districts reported 1,446 cases and 34 deaths. Virudhunagar recorded 292 cases followed by Theni (282), Madurai (169), Tuticorin (157) Tirunelveli (137), Kanyakumari (117), Tenkasi (99) and Sivaganga (92). Tirunelveli reported nine deaths, Madurai six and Dindigul five. There were 13,194 active cases in the districts.
The central districts reported fewer cases and deaths compared to west Tamil Nadu. While there were 544 cases in the central zone, the western region reported 715 cases. Coimbatore reported 294 cases, Salem 217, Pudukkottai 147 and Trichy 135.
Coimbatore collector P Rajamani, who recently recovered from Covid-19, said despite aggressive screening and testing, most fresh cases were being reported from the corporation limits.
At the end of the day, while 69,697 people were tested, 5,633 were discharged, taking the total number of people recovered to 2,56,313.