Chennai: Apart from the country testing 2,000 more samples, the number of new Covid-19 cases reported from Tamil Nadu in the last 24 hours saw autumn, despite marginal, compared to numbers on Saturday.
On Sundays, the country was screened 1.57 lakh samples, where 30,580 was tested positively; On Saturday, the number reached 30,744.
However, the number of deaths increased from 33 to 40 for the same time period.
The Minister of Health MA Subramanian on Sunday said that most of the victims were not vaccinated and that, unlike the second wave, the low case fatality ratio.
In Chennai, the spread decreases.
The district, which reported around 9,000 new cases last week, only reported 6,383 on Sunday.
The positivity test rate (TPR) of the district has now dropped to 23.6% and Chennai has moved to the twelfth position in the wise district of TPR district.
“After the case drops further, there will be no need for total locking on Sundays or further restrictions,” Subramanian said.
Cases, however, increased in districts such as Coimbatore (3,912 new cases), Thiruvallur (984), Tiruppur (736), Erode (554) and Ranipet (419).
As a result, the average TPR country is increasing.
At present, around 20%, meaning that each fifth positive sample test.
In addition, the number of active cases in Tamil Nadu crossed the two lakh marks.
At present, 2,00,954 is undergoing treatment.
As for health infrastructure, the government has bought 327 oxygen generators and 17,500 concentrators to anticipate the increase in o2 demand.
“The current request for Oxygen TN is around 117 metric tons (MTs) a day,” said Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.
It was around 530 MT a day during the second wave.
Be it possible, it’s important for people not to drop their guards, he said.
Because those who meet the requirements but have not received their booster shot at the same risk as those who are not vaccinated, he asks senior citizens and frontline workers to get their prudential doses.