Chennai: A total of 86,342 people were under home quarantine in Tamilnadu and 90 in government quarantine centres. A total of 4,070 people who completed their 28 day quarantine period were relieved.
In all there were 17 testing labs in the state (11 Government labs and six private labs) and six more labs would be added soon.
With 309 cases, Tamilnadu has emerged as the second state in the country with a large number of positive cases, behind Maharashtra, where the numbers has crossed 400.
Of the 75 fresh cases, 74 had attended the Nizamuddin congregation, while the other person tested positive through a contact from them. With this a total of 264 Tablighi congregators from the State have tested positive, Health Secretary Ms Beela Rajesh told reporters.
She said tests were done on all the 1,103 people, who attended the Delhi congregation, and some reports were awaited.
The area where the families of these 1,103 people were living were brought under the containment zone under which the 7 km radius from their residence was marked and officials doing checks in each house to find out whether anyone have symptoms of COVID infection.