Chennai: The new Covid-19 case in Tamil Nadu reached 20,911 on Thursday, marking several gloomy milestones.
Chennai reported 8,218 new cases, the highest number of times a day since March 2020, while active cases in the country crossed 1 lakh after 210 days.
Twenty-five deaths were reported on Thursday, the highest since October.
On October 7, Tamil Nadu reported 27 deaths and the daily toll have declined since then.
During the past four days, the total number of deaths in the country has increased even though there are no changes in the case mortality rate.
The average weekly death per day, about nine days between Christmas and January 9, rose to January 10 on January 10.
From an average of 13 deaths a day on Wednesday, the average death of 7 days in this country has touched 15.
Active cases, in the meantime, increased by almost 16% in the last 24 hours to 1.03.610 on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the state has 88,959 people in covid isolation.
The last time the country had more than 1 lakh the person underwent treatment on June 17, 2021, when the second wave was receding.
However, even though there was an increase in the number of active cases, almost 90% of hospital beds in the state were empty.
On Thursday, along with Chennai, three neighboring districts – Chengalpet (2,030), Tiruvallur (901) and Kancheepuram (502) – added 11,651 new cases, making the country hotspot area.
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Ten patients notified to other countries and 231 patients have run out.
In the West, Coimbatore crossed a four-digit mark and added 17 new cases, and among others Madurai reported 599 new cases and Trichy 465.
At least 30 of 38 districts in the country reported an increase in new cases, compared to those tally Wednesday.
Thirty districts reported more than 100 new cases and among the Chennai, Chengalpet and Coimbatore had more than 1,000 new cases.
Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said next week it would be very important for the country because there would be an increase in travel between countries and interdistrik, reunion and meeting for Pongal.
People from urban areas can take infections to rural areas and vice versa, he said.
“Cases tend to increase for a few more days,” he added.
With 56 new cases, Ariyalur has the least number of new cases followed by Nagapattinam (57) and Mayiladuthurai (58).
25 deaths reported from 100 districts, including eight in Chennai, three in Madurai, two of each in Tiruvallur, Tuticorin and Tiruvannamalai and one in Chengalpet, Trichy, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar, Cuddalore, Dindigul and Ramanathapuram.
Cumulative Covid toll road since March 2020 touched 36,930 maintain case fatality cases at 1.3%.
In the end, 6,235 patients were removed from the active registry.
At least 1.45 lakh took the Covid vaccine on Thursday.
This includes 28,007 people in the age group 1518 …
Besides that, 73,030 people took the dose of caution.