Chennai: New cases in Tamil Nadu fell to 1,179 on Tuesday from 1.192 on Monday after 13 districts showed a marginal increase in new cases in the last 24 hours.
With 156 new cases Chennai continues to report the maximum number of new cases in the city.
In the last 24 hours, cases have increased from 150 on Monday.
While Coimbatore, who followed Chennai, has declined to 127 cases from 130 cases reported on Monday.
However, the sharpest increase was reported by Chengalpet, where new cases rose to 98 compared to 87 on Monday.
At least 23 districts report less than 20 cases each, among nine of them report cases in one digit.
While Virudhunagar reported three cases, Tenkasi and Ariyal followed each of the four and five new cases.
While 16 deaths took cumulative victims to 35,928, the total case touched 26.89 lakh.
At the end of the day, after 1,407 release, there were 14,326 people in the list of active cases.
Of the 16 deaths, there were three in Chennai, two in Tiruppur and Trichy, each in nine districts – Coimbatore, Salem, Namakkal, Thiruvarur, Nilgiris, Tirunelveli, Sivagaai, Villupuram, and Screening.
All other districts report zero death.
The active case in three Chennai (1771), Coimbatore (1506) and Chengalpet (1080) are in four digits.
Tenaskasi has 25 active cases – the lowest in the state – followed by the helpless (25).
Meanwhile 1.6 people took a vaccine at TN on Tuesday.
It took the calculation of vaccine doses in government centers to 5.1 crore.
And 26.10 Lakh people have taken vaccines at a private hospital since May 1.