Chennai: Tamil Nadu reported 710 positive cases on Tuesday, when the State announced that two more international passengers from high-risk countries had been tested positively Covid-19.
With this, the total number of Covid-19 patients with a history of travel to these countries rose to nine.
“We have not received the results of their gene sequencing but public health experts say they cannot carry an Omicron variant,” said Minister of Health MA Subramanian.
The only reliable variant is confirmed with a genome sequencing, but Tamil Nadu uses a detection test that can filter the ‘s-gen dropout’ ability.
“Laboratories in our country do not see dropping s-genes during the test,” he said.
Samples of all patients have been sent to all Laboratories of the genome in Bengaluru and to the Public Health Lab in Chennai.
The health condition of all these patients is stable.
Meanwhile, ten deaths reported on Tuesday took cumulative to 36,549.
At the end of the day, 731 patients were dismissed, and 7,982 patients were under treatment for viral infections.
Chennai (126) and Coimbatore (122) reported cases in three digits, followed by Chengalpet (57), Erode (56) and Tirupur (52).
A dozen districts reported an increase of up to four cases compared to their new cases on Monday.
Kancheepuram, Salem and Thanjavur each reported 23, 43 and 14 cases – four more than what they reported on Monday.
While 26 districts reported cases in one digit, three of them -Ariyyal, Pulajottai and Virudhunagar reported no new cases.
Of the ten deaths, there are two in Chennai and each one in eight other Coimbatore, Chengalpet, Salem, Kankumari, Thiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Madurai and Ranipet.
Twenty-nine of 38 districts reported zero death.