Chennai: Covid-19 fresh cases in all districts in the state down on Sunday, when Tamil Nadu added 22,238 new cases compared to 24,418 new cases reported on Saturday and 26,533 cases on Friday.
38 deaths took cumulative death to 37,544.
On Sunday night, the state had 2.03 lakh people who were still under treatment for viral infections.
Chennai, who continued to report the highest number of cases also saw the steepest decline.
The city reported 3,998 new cases compared to 4,508 on Saturday.
Coimbatore, which has the second highest number of new cases, reported 2,865 compared to 3309 on Sunday.
Four other districts Chengalpet (1,534), Tiruppur (1,497), Salem (1,181) and Erode (1,127) each reported more than 1000 cases.
Screening (52) reported the least number of cases followed by Mayiladuthurai (98) and Vellore (110).
Along with cases, the number of samples also dropped to 1.28 lakh.
Public Health Director Dr.
S Selvavinayagam said that the test had fallen because the country no longer traced and tested the contact of the positively tested.
Only people show symptoms such as fever, running nose, sore throat and cough tested.
Hospitals also do not make mandatory tests for acceptance or other procedures unless they see symptoms of the disease, he said.
The number of active cases in the state fell to 2.03 lakh, but less than 4% of them needed hospitalization.
Of the 8,229 patients admitted 1023 was in the ICU.
Nearly 90% of beds throughout the state are empty.
Of the 38 deaths, there were ten in Chennai, six in Chengalpet and five in Trichy.
While Madurai reported three deaths, Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Tiruvallur reported two of each.
Eight other districts – Salem, Thanjavur, Namakkal, Thiruvarur, Tenkasi, Kalakurichi, Theni and Nagapattinam – each reported one death.