88 persons succumbed to Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu during the last 24 hours while a record number of 4,807 new persons were diagnosed with coronavirus infection on Saturday, said a media release by the State Government.
As on Saturday, there were 49, 452 active Covid-19 cases in the State. The 111 laboratories across the State tested 47, 179 persons and the total number of persons tested till date crossed the 1.8 million mark.
Tamil Nadu has 1.65 lakh coronavirus patients as on Saturday. Out of the 88 who died on Saturday, 82 has co-morbid issues. Till date the State has recorded 2,403 deaths due to Covid-19.
The day also 3,409 persons walking out of the hospital fully cured. Till date the State has seen 1.13 lakh patients getting cured of the pandemic.
Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami said that Tamil Nadu has the highest recovery rate in the country. He said 67 per cent of the patients have been recovered fully from Covid-19. Speaking to reporters at Erode, the choef minister said ‘right action and intense testing’ helped the State in bringing down the death rate and the State would see the pandemic cases coming down soon.
While Chennai continued to show a fall in the number of cases on Saturday (1,219), districts like Kancheepuram (97), Chengalpet (323), Thiruvallur (370) continued to show increased number of patients.
Sixteen districts out of the 37 districts in the State has more than hundred Covid-19 patients each. Tamil Nadu’s first Plasma Bank would become operational on Monday, said Dr C Vijay Baskar, health minister. He said that plasma therapy succeeded in saving the lives of many Covid-19 patients.