Covid-19 claimed 65 persons in Tamil Nadu on Saturday while 4, 280 more persons were diagnosed with the pandemic in the State.
The Tamil Nadu Government has started making arrangements like increasing the number of beds and hospitals to accommodate more cases as there are no signs of the pandemic getting subsiding in the near future. By Friday, Vijaya Hospital, one of the largest private corporate hospitals offering medical care at reasonable rates was shut down following many medical staff testing positive.
The total number of persons tested positive for the pandemic till date reached 1, 07, 001 while there are 44, 956 active patients in the State. The only information which offers some solace to the people is the number of persons cured of the pandemic in the State. On Saturday, 2,214 patients were discharged from various hospitals in the State and this took the number of persons cured of the pandemic till date to 60,592.
The State Government in its mission to identify and isolate the coronavirus continued to open more laboratories as part of its aggressive testing. The day saw three more laboratories starting testing for covid-19 taking the total number of laboratories in the State to 94. Tamil Nadu is ahead of other States in the number of testing . While Maharashtra with a population of 12.31 crore tests 8,521 persons per million, Tamil Nadu’s figure is 16, 325 persons for every million. Neighbouring Kerala tests 7,087 per million of its population.
On Saturday, 35, 426 persons were tested all over the State and total number of persons tested till date reached 1.25 million.
Out of the 65 who breathed their last on Saturday, 59 died with co-morbidities. Chennai accounted for 37 deaths.
The capital city continued to lead the table with highest number of covid patients. 1,842 persons in Chennai were diagnosed with the pandemic on Saturday. Chengalpet (215), Kancheepuram (134) and Thiruvallur (251) the three neighbouring districts which have been locked down till July 5 along with Chennai did not show any signs of abatement.
Madurai tested 352 positive cases while Thiruvannamalai (173) and Ramanathapuram (149) emerged as areas of worry for the authorities.