Chennai: This country added 1,578 new Covid -19 cases on Saturday compared to 1,597 on Friday and 1,612 on Thursday.
Apart from the decrease in the total number of cases, at least 14 districts including Thiruvarur and Madurai reported an increase in the last 24 hours.
24 deaths took cumulative death to 35,627.
In the end, after 1,607 people were sent home and there were 11,046 cases active in the registry.
Active cases in all districts fell below the 2000 mark – with 1,990 in Coimbatore and 1937 in Chennai.
Chennai, who continued to report the number of maximum cases, log188 cases on Saturday – two less than 190 new cases of City reported on Friday.
After Chennai, Coimbatore District reported 163 cases compared to 170 new cases on Friday.
Chengalpet (107) is the only other district that reported more than 100 cases.
Erode and Thanjavur each reported 95 and 94 cases.
The sharpest increase was reported from Thiruvarur, where cases rose to 62 on Saturday from 51 on Friday.
In the case of Madurai and Virudhunagar, each rose to 35 and 19 compared to 25 and 9 on Friday.
At least 11 other districts reported an increase between 1 and 8 new cases compared to their Friday tally.
On Saturday, Chennai reported five deaths, followed by three in Kancheepuram and each in Chengalpet, Thiruvarur, Thiruvallur and Vellore.
Eight districts reported one of their respective deaths, and 24 others reported zero death.