Almost 5,000 persons (4,979 to be precise) were diagnosed with Covid-19 on Sunday in Tamil Nadu. The last 24 hours saw the pandemic claiming 78 lives. The signals coming from the State is that the Covid-19 is continuing unabated all over causing wreck in cities, towns and even in villages.
The Directorate of Health and Preventive Medicine in its bulletin issued in the evening said that there were 50, 294 active Covid cases in Tamil Nadu. Till date 1.7 lakh persons have been tested positive for covid-19, said the bulletin.
The importance given by the administration in tracing, testing and isolating the covid afflicted could be understood from the hike in the number of laboratories functioning in the State. As on Sunday, there are 112 laboratories working 24X7 in Tamil Nadu. These laboratories tested 51, 640 persons on Sunday taking the total number of persons tested till date to 1.85 million.
The day also saw 4,059 persons getting discharged from hospitals and this took the number of persons cured of covid till date to 1.17 lakh.
Out of the 78 deaths registered on Sunday, 75 had pre-existing morbid conditions (they had life threatening ailments like diabetes, kidney problems, cancer and cardio vascular issues).
Covid situations in the top four districts remained unchanged as they continued to show increase in the number of cases. Chennai (1,254), Kancheepuram (220) Chengalpet (306), Thiruvallur (405) are the problematic districts in the State, Districts like Madurai (206), Coimbatore(135), the financial hubs of the State continued to be under the spell of the pandemic.