Tamil Nadu registered 1,449 new Covid cases, 16 deaths

Chennai: Tamil Nadu added 1,449 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, a marginal decline of 1,467 cases reported on Monday.
Meanwhile, sixteen deaths took the cumulative death to 35,682 when this case touched 26.71 lakh on Tuesday.
In the end, 1,548 people were sent home left 16,749 of them still in care.
With 179 new cases, Chennai continued to report the highest number of cases followed by 151 in Coimbatore and 113 in Chengelpet.
Chengelpet, which is the only other district that reported more than 100 new cases, also reported the sharpest increase from 103 cases on Monday.
At least 13 districts report an increase in everyday cases compared to their Monday.
Tirunelveli and Erode reported each of the 26 and 93 compared to the 19 and 88 they reported on Monday.
Ten other districts reported an increase in one and five cases compared to their Monday.
At least 16 districts reported less than 20 cases, where Ariyalur (7), Ramanathapuram (7), Screens (6) and Tenkasi (3) reported cases in one digit.
Of the 16 deaths, there were three deaths in Thanjavur, two at least 35% of active cases in the country came from Chennai (1900), Coimbatore (1842), Chengelpet (1100) and Erode (1100).
In Chennai, coimbatore and nilgiris, and each in seven other districts.
There were no deaths reported from 27 districts.
The sharpest decline in cases was recorded in Thanjavur, who reported 83 new cases on Tuesday compared to 90 Monday.
During the same time the case in Thiruvarur fell from 55 to 50 and Krishnagiri saw a decline to 33 of 38.