Death toll due to Covid-19 remained high in Tamil Nadu on Thursday as 116 patients succumbed to the pandemic and 5,986 persons were tested positive during the day, according to a press release issued by the Department of Health.
With Thursday’s death toll, the total number of fatalities in the State reached 6,239. As on Thursday there were 53, 283 active cases in Tamil Nadu. The day also saw 5,742 patients getting cured and discharged from hospitals across the State. Tamil Nadu’s testing remained much higher than that of other States as it tested 73,162 persons on Thursday which took the total number of people tested in the State till date to 3.85 million.
The State has 139 functioning Covid-19 testing facilities working round-the-clock to ensure aggressive testing.
Situation in Chennai, which gave an impression of stabilisation in the transmission of the pandemic during the last week, turned aggressive by Thursday. The Metropolis tested 1,177 persons with Covid-19 on a single day while the neighbouring districts of Kancheepuram (291), Chengalpet (462) and Thiruvallur (393) too remained on the higher side.