Tamil Nadu saw 6,993 new persons getting diagnosed with Covid-19 on Monday while the pandemic claimed 77 lives across the State in the last 24 hours, according to the medical bulletin issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
Since July 23, the State has seen the number of persons getting contracted with Covod-19 showing an unprecedented increase and this has made Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswai to convene a meeting of all district collectors on July 29 to find out a strategy to check the unprecedented hike. Palaniswami also inaugurated on Monday the scheme of providing free face masks to all ration card holders in the State.
On July 23, the State saw the number of persons diagnosed with the pandemic on a single day reaching 6,472, while on July 24 it shot up to 6,785. On Jukly 25, the number of new persons tested positive for covid reached 6,988 and on July 26, there were 6,986 new addition to the army of covid patients in the State.
With Monday’s hike in the number of covid patients in the State, Tamil Nadu has 54,896 active cases. The death toll reached 3,571 while the total number of persons discharged after getting cured showed 1.62 lakh.
While Chennai showed some stabilisation as the number of new patients were restricted to 1,138, the three neighbouring districts remained problematic. Chengalpet tested 448 positive cases while Kancheepuram had 362 new cases and Thiruvallur was home to 474 new patients.
The States 22 districts have more than 100 patients each while 1.82 lakh of the total patients were of the 13-60 age group. Out of the 77 persons who died on Monday, 69 had pre-existing morbidity issues.