Chennai: Tamil Nadu continues to report a decline in new cases on Wednesday when adding 3,971 new cases compared to 4519 on Tuesday.
28 deaths took the toll count to 37,837.
At the end of the day, 16473 people were removed from the registry and the state had 77,607 active cases.
“The incident went down and we had fewer people in the hospital.
But many parents, especially those who are not vaccinated and those who have a commorbid condition continue to have a severe form of disease.
They need hospitalization including ICU receipts,” said Minister of Health MA Subramanian.
Sequencing of the overall-genome data released by the public health laboratory showed that almost 97% of infections from the sample drawn on January 26 were the Omicron variants compared to 12% at 11 and 63% on December 25.
“Even among people infected by Omicron variants, parents and people who are not vaccinated need oxygen therapy and intensive care,” said Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.
More than 80% of dead people are over 60 years.
“More than 1.10 Crore people are due for the second dose of vaccines.
Mega vaccination drive is held with these people as the main target,” he said.
Of the 7.5 lakh people maturing for a dose of booster, the state has covered 4.57 lakh and between 15-18 groups of age 80% have taken the first dose and 22% have taken the second dose, he said.
On Thursday, 1.09 Lakh people over 15 years took vaccination against Covid-19.
Restrictions of Kalakurichi, all districts in the state reported a decline in new cases compared to tally Tuesday.
While Chennai (742) and Coimbatore (726) reported the highest number of cases followed by Chengalpet (334), new cases in all other districts under 250 each.
With nine new cases, the scramber reported the number of cases followed by Tenkasi (10), Mayiladuthurai (11), and Tirupathur (15).
Of the 28 deaths, there were six in Chennai, four in Kancheepuram, three each in Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Madurai, and Tuticorin, two in Trichy and one in Tiruppur, Tiruvallur, Thanjavur, and Virudhunagar.
Weekly TPR fell to 13.2% in Puducherry the Union Puducherry region reported 198 new cases even when 538 patients recovered in the last 24 hours ended at 10 am on Wednesday lowered the number of active cases to 3,086.
From them, 3,012 was under isolation and home care while the rest was in the hospital.
Puducherry headquarters reported maximum new cases with 135 followed by Karaikan (33), Yanam (42) and Mahe (6).
Puducherry headquarters have a maximum active case with 2,024 followed by Karaikan (885), Yanam (147) and Mahe (30).
A 81-year-old man from Puducherry and a 85-year-old woman from Mahe died because the infection took the dead to 1,955.
The sample front level (2,322) was tested on Wednesday reaching 8.5%, which was more than a national average of 4.5%.
The weekly part of the infection, which floated around 30% a few days ago, fell to 13.2% on Wednesday.
However, the tariff is higher than the national average of 7.6%.
The health care authority has so far tested 21.82 Samples Swab lakh which is 18.28 lakh restored negative samples.
They have so far gave 15.5 doses of Lakh Vaccine Covid-19.
They have so far given the first dose of 9.25 lakh people, both doses of up to 6.14 lakh people and prevention doses to 10,076.
Tamil Nadu registered 3,971 new Covid cases, 28 deaths
