NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JAN 12
Continuing to report an upward tick in new Covid-19 cases, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday added 17,934 infections, pushing the caseload to 28,47,589, while 19 more fatalities took the death toll to 36,905, the health department said.
Recoveries too increased today with 4,039 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours compared to 3,043 yesterday, aggregating to 27,21,725 leaving 88,959 active infections, a medical bulletin said.
Chennai accounted for the majority of new coronavirus infections with 7,372 followed by Chengalpet 1,840, Coimbatore 981, Thiruvallur 931, Kancheepuram 620, while the remaining was spread across other districts.
The State capital had added 6,484 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday. Those who tested positive today included 36 returnees from domestic and overseas locations. A total of 1,56,281 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 5,89,54,751.
A five-year-old baby boy from Chennai was among the COVID related deaths. He died due to Covid-19 pneumonia.
Meanwhile, Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said the weekly exercise of conducting the COVID mega vaccination camp would not be held this week in view of the coming festival season. “Instead of this week, the mega vaccination camp will be held next week,” he told reporters. The ruling DMK government launched the mass vaccination exercise on September 12, 2021.
Puducherry confirms 893 more Coronavirus infections, 1 fatality
Puducherry confirmed 893 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the cumulative figure to 1,32,759 during the last twenty-four hours ending 10 am on Wednesday.
One person succumbed to the infection in Puducherry during last twenty-four hours raising the toll to 1,883.The new cases were identified at the end of examination of 4,387 samples and these cases were spread over Puducherry 801, Karaikal 60, Mahe 22 and Yanam 10.
In a release, Director of Health, G Sriramulu noted that the active cases were 3,203 of whom 137 were in hospitals taking treatment and the remaining 3066 patients were in home isolation. He said 44 patients recovered during last 24 hours and the overall recoveries stood at 1,27,673.The test positivity rate was 20.36 percent while the fatality and recovery rates were 1.42 percent and 96.17 percent respectively.
The Department of Health has tested so far 20,78,973 samples and has found 17,64,937 out of them to be negative.The department has administered so far 14,85,255 doses which comprised 8,99,596 first doses, 5,84,896 second and 763 booster doses.
