Chennai: The case of Covid-19 in the state has fallen down below 1,600 in the past week, with 1,532 new cases reported on Monday.
This took the state counting to 26.13 lakh which included 17,085 people still undergoing treatment for infection.
At least 21 people surrendered to infection, but there was no death in the southern district of the country.
New cases in the state down from 1.604 on August 23 to 1,585 on August 24.
Since then there has been a slow decline in new cases.
On Monday, of 1,532 cases, 79 children under 12 and 242 people were 60 years and over.
On Monday, 1.5 lakh was tested for Covid-19, which took the total number of people tested to 4.1 crore.
The state of the state testing is 0.9% on August 29.
188 new infections were reported in Coimbatore (2.1% TPR), which continued to report maximum new cases in the state, has pushed the number of new cases to 559 in eight years.
Western district.
6,337 people are still undergoing treatment in this country.
This is a decline of 6,576 active cases reported on Sunday Chennai and three neighbors have added 370 new cases including 183 in the city with TPR 0.8%.
This took the number of active cases in the Chennai region to 3,987.
New infections in seven northern districts increased from 150 on Sunday to 178 on Monday taking active cases in the region from 2,132 on Sunday to 2,134 on Monday.
Likewise, new cases in nine central districts also increased from 258 on Sunday to 301 on Monday.
Thanjavur reported 78, Trichy 65, Thiruvarur 41 and Nagapattinam 40.
It took the total number of people undergoing treatment for infections in this region from 2,850 on Sunday to 3,182 on Monday.
While new cases in the southern district are 115, the same as Sunday, there is no death in this region on Monday.
1,340 people are treated for infection, increasing from 1,329 on Sundays.
At least 1,739 was sent home after successfully receiving treatment.
While Western Regency reported eight deaths, the northern region and the center reported that the five deaths were followed by the Chennai region with three deaths including one in Chennai.
There is no Covid death in the south, cases in TN remain below 1.6K
