Tamil Nadu on Friday saw 119 persons succumbing to Covid-19 and 5,880 new persons joining the list of coronavirus patients, according to a press release by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
The causalities registered on Friday make it the highest number of deaths on a single day in the State. 115 patients who breathed their last on Friday had comorbidities (pre-existing chronic diseases). Till date Tamil Nadu has lost 4,690 lives to covid-19.
The number of new patients diagnosed with covid-19 on Friday is on the higher side, when compared to that of Thursday (5,684).
But the total number of active cases on Friday, (52,759) is less than that of Thursday (53,486) which is encouraging to the authorities.
As 6,488 patients were cured and returned home from hospitals, the number of patients recovered from the pandemic rose to 2.27 lakh.
A single day saw Tamil Nadu health authorities testing 65,189 persons and the number of testing centres functioning in the State rose to 126. While the number of new persons diagnosed with Covid-19 came down to 984 in Chennai (which was testing 1,000+ every day till yesterday, the same cannot be said about the constituents which make the large cluster of four districts.
While Chengalpet tested 319 positive cases, Kancheepuram saw 166 new patients and Thiruvallur (388).