Sixty persons succumbed to Covid-19 while 4,150 persons were tested positive for the pandemic on Sunday in Tamil Nadu. This took the total number of persons diagnosed with Covid-19 in the State till date to 1.11 million.
Taking into account the number of patients cured and discharged from the hospitals till date, there were 46, 860 active patients in the State on Sunday, according to the medical bulletin issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
The death toll in the State reached 1,510 on Sunday as 60 persons succumbed to the illness. Out of the 60 which died on Sunday, 57 had pre-existing morbidity or chronic diseases, said the bulletin.
Tamil Nadu is on an aggressive testing mode as part of the administration’s efforts to identify and isolate the coronavirus cases. On Sunday, four more laboratories were pressed into service which took the total number of laboratories in the State to 95.
These laboratories together tested 34, 102 persons across the State taking the number of persons tested till date to 1.28 million.
Chennai continued to be the covid-19 headquarters of the State as 1,713 out of the 4,150 tested positive were from the metropolis. The neighbouring districts of Chengalpet (274), Kancheepuram (152) and Thiruvallur (209) did not show any abatement in the number of covid cases despite the lock down.
Madurai (308) and the industrial hub Vellore (179) continued to be districts of concern as the numbers kept increasing during the last 24 hours.
Expatriates who returned to Tamil Nadu did not cause any fear in the minds of officials as only 22 of them were diagnosed with coronavirus on Sunday. 61 persons who returned to the State from other parts of the country tested positive.
Meanwhile, the government made it known on Sunday that Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami would undertake a tour all over Tamil Nadu to take stock of the situation arising out of the pandemic.