Within 24 hours of Tamil Nadu’s Health Minister Dr C Vijaya Baskar claimed that the State has the best medical strategy in the country, the Directorate of Health and Preventive Medicine came out with a bulletin which stated that Tamil Nadu diagnosed 5,849 persons with Covid-19 on Wednesday. This is the highest number of coronavirus cases detected in the State on a single day.
What upset the Tamil Nadu Government is the steep hike in the number of persons afflicted with coronavirus within a day. On Tuesday, 4,965 persons were tested positive for the pandemic and this means that the number of Covid-19 patients in the State shot up by almost 1,000 during the last 24 hours.
In last 24 hours, 74 patients succumbed to the pandemic.
By noon itself it was known that the number of patients infected with the virus would be on the higher side. A doctor in the Government service expressed his anxiety as the hike in the number of patients come at a time when the State is experiencing rainfall as part of the South West Monsoon.
“We were expecting some respite once the rains set in but it has been proved wrong,” said the doctor who did not what his name to be quoted.
The bulletin said as on Wednesday, Tamil Nadu has 51,765 active Covid-19 cases while the day saw 4,910 persons getting discharged from hospitals across the State.
While the situation in Chennai remained similar to that of previous days (the Metropolis tested positive for 1,171 persons), neighbouring Chengalpet accounted for 223 cases. Kancheepuram (325) and Thiruvallur (430) saw steep hike in the number of patients.
Situation in Ranipet (414) and Virudhunagar (363) have turned grave as the numbers from these districts show. Thirunelveli (267) and Thoothukudi (202) are the other districts which recorded unabated spreading of the disease.