Chennai: Tamil Nadu added 1,733 new cases on Friday, a marginal decline of 1,745 cases reported on Thursday.
But nearly 18 districts including Thirupathur and Namakkal reported increased cases compared to their Thursday counting.
Coimbatore and Chennai continue to register more than 200 cases each even though there are fewer new cases compared to Thursday.
While Coimbatore reported 210 new cases compared to 226 on Thursday, Chennai had 205 new cases compared to 222 on Thursday.
Chengalpet and Erode are two other districts to report cases in three digits.
Cases in Chengalpet rose to 122 out of 107.
Erode cases increased to 119 of 116.
The sharpest increase in the last 24 hours was reported from Thirupathur, where the case rose to 37 of 16 on Thursday.
During the same time period in Namakkal and Tiruppur rose to 72 and 98.
On Thursday, the district had reported 52 and 82 cases.
A dozen districts in the country report new cases under 20 and among them walls (9), scrambling (7), Theni (7), Ramanathapuram (4) and tenkasi (4) report cases in one digit.
27 deaths took the cumulative death toll 35,454.
On Friday, Coimbatore, Chengalpet and Trichy reported three Covid-19 deaths each, followed by two in Chennai, Salem and Nilgiris.
While dozen districts reported one death, 20 others reported zero death.
At the end of the day, after the country was dismissed 1,631 people there were 17,196 people in the registry active case – increased from 17.121 on Thursday.
There were 2,127 people who were treated in Chennai followed by 2,119 patients in Coimbatore.
Erode (1,287) and Chengalpet (1,178) are two other districts that have more than 1000 patients in care.
Four districts have less than 100 active cases.
Ramanathapuram (54) has the least number of patients in care.
The cumulative Covid-19 case touched 26.53 lakh.
Meanwhile, 1.8 people lakh took a vaccine on Friday, pushing a dose of tally at a government hospital to 4.17 crore.
Calculation of doses in private hospitals touched 24.47 lakh since May 1.