COIMBATORE: The district recorded 756 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the total number of cases to 2,15,808, of which 2,06,592 have recovered so far.
The recovery rate now stands at 95.7%.
With 1,151 people getting discharged from hospitals and Covid care centres on the day, the number of active cases has come down to 7,248 in the district.
While the district continued to record the highest number of cases in the state, it managed to record lesser deaths than Chennai on the day.
The district recorded 12 deaths, pushing the toll up to 1,968.
As on Thursday, the district had 5,249 vacant beds, including 373 ICU beds and 2,742 oxygen beds, in hospitals.
The number of people in home isolation has reduced to 1,886, while hardly 200 patients from other districts are undergoing treatment in the district.