Chennai: Tamil Nadu reported a marginal decline in fresh Covid-19 cases to 1.509 on Wednesday compared to 1,512 on Tuesday and 1.523 on Monday.
Coimbatore, Tiruvannamalai, Kancheepuram and Trichy are between 19 districts that reported a new case increase compared to tally Tuesday they.
Coimbatore, who reported the sharpest increase from 186 new cases on Wednesday compared to 173 on Tuesday, also topped the table with the most recent cases in TN.
Chennai followed with 177 cases and Erode with 137.
The two districts reported fewer cases compared to their tally.
The Public Health Department along with police and income officials has forced a fine of people who are arrested without masks or not maintaining social distance, said Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.
“We also accelerate vaccination together with testing and supervision,” he said.
On Wednesday, 1.5 lakh people underwent a RPCR test.
Except for Coimbatore, Chennai and Erode, all other districts reported fewer than 100 cases.
There are 20 districts that report less than 25 cases and eight reported less than 10 cases.
The sharpest decline in the last 24 hours was reported in Thanjavur, where new cases fell to 70 of 98 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 22 deaths on Wednesday took victims to 34,941 and the state reported the calculation of the cumulative case of 26.16 lakh.
At the end of the day, after the use of 1,719 patients, there were 16,620 people who were still undergoing treatment for viral infections.
Of the 20 new deaths, four were reported at Cuddalore, two of each in Coimbatore, Chennai, Trichy, Mayiladuthurai and Pulajottai.
Twenty-six districts have no death.