Tamil Nadu has succeeded in taming the Covid-19 pandemic to a great extent, according to the data for Sunday released by the Directorate of Preventive Medicine and Health.
The State logged 7, 817 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday while the fatalities for the day stood at 182. Across the State, 1.66 lakh persons were subjected to RT-PCR tests. Coimbatore, the industrial capital of Tamil Nadu, which had showed more than thousand cases on an average per day, registered just 904 new cases on Sunday while neighbouring Erode (870) and Tirupur (477) districts too showed that the Covid virus was getting flattened.
Chennai logged 455 cases while the death till date rose to 31,197. At the time of going to Press, Tamil Nadu as a whole was in different stages of lifting of lock downs indicating that normal life is returning to the State though with restrictions.