Chennai: Tamil Nadu registered 1,170 positive cases for Covid-19 on Wednesday, a decline of 1,179 cases reported on Tuesday.
20 deaths took the cumulative Tallly Toll to 35,948 and the total case touched 26.90 lakh.
New cases in Chennai fell to 148 of 156 on Tuesday, even though the city continued to report the maximum number of cases.
Coimbatore, which was followed by 141 new cases, also reported the sharpest increase in cases of 127 cases on Tuesday.
At least 15 other districts report between 1 and 9 cases more than Tuesday’s calculation.
At least 22 districts reported less than 20 cases each and nine of them reported cases in one digit.
Screening (2) reported the least number of new cases followed by Thyi (3), Tenkasi (3) and Ariyalur (4).
At the end of the day, after 1,418 people were dismissed from the registry, the state had 14,058 active cases.
At 4 pm, 4566 people were hospitalized in 1909 in bed oxygen and 816 of them were in the intensive care unit.
Of the 20 deaths, Coimbatore reported six, followed by each of each in Chengalpet and Trichy and one in Chennai, Tiruppur, Salem, Thanjavur, Thiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Dharmapuri, Nagapattinam, Kanyakumari and Pulajottai.
Twenty-five districts reported zero death.
The 1.4 lakh vaccinated state on Wednesday, pushed a dose of tally in government centers to 5.13 crores.