nThere are 9,227 Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu as on Wednesday evening 7 pm. The daily medical bulletin issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu stated that 509 persons tested positive for coronavirus all over the State on Wednesday taking the number of patients to 9,227.
With three more persons succumbing to the pandemic on Wednesday, the fatalities in the State reached 64.
Chennai, the capital city, saw the number of covid-19 patients going up by 380 making the total number of patients in the metropolis to 5,262. This means that the number of coronavirus positive persons in the city increasing two-fold during the last week.
According to the details furnished by the Government, there were 2,644 patients on May 7 in the city. This has shot up to 5,262 in six days, a shocking increase.
But Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami told reporters early in the day that the hike in the number of coronavirus cases is due to the increased testing of samples which he claimed as the highest in the country.