Tamil Nadu witnessed 70 persons succumbing to Covid-19 and 4,985 persons getting diagnosed with coronavirus pandemic during the last 24 hours according to a press release issued by the Directorate of Health Services and Preventive Medicine on Monday.
The day ended with a total of 51, 348 persons diagnosed with active Covid-19 cases all over the State while the total number of persons tested positive till date crossing 1.75 lakh mark.
This means that the situation in Tamil Nadu remains critical despite the efforts of the State administration to bring the pandemic under control by opening more laboratories and arranging additional hospital beds across the State.
As on Monday, 1.9 million persons across the State have been subjected to tests in the 112 laboratories across the State, the highest number of persons tested anywhere in India, according to Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami.
On Monday, 3,861 persons were discharged from hospitals across Tamil Nadu, fully cured of the pandemic. Since there is no identified drug/vaccine in the modern medicine, hospitals across the State continue with paracetamol and other generic drugs to counter coronavirus.
Out of the nearly 5,000 persons tested positive on Monday, Chennai had 1,298 while Chengalpet (354), Thiruvallur (454) and Kancheepuram (329) followed closely.
Except in Chennai no other districts have shown any kind of abatement or fall in the numbers.
Thoothukudi (200), Tirunelveli (108), Tiruvannamalai ( 151), Vellore (114), Virudhunagar (169), Madurai (106) Theni (107) continued to be cases of concern as there is no sign of any fall in the number of Covid cases.