Chennai: After a significant reduction in the last three days, the number of people testing positive rose to 56 on Friday, taking the Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 tally to 1,323 in 34 districts of the State.
An official release here said of the 56 cases, a maximum of 17 was reported from Thanjavur, Chennai (11-one Primary and ten contacts), Kanniyakumari and Tiruvallur and Tenkasi (5 each), Tiruvarur (4), Vellore and Trichy (3 each), Nagapattinam, Theni and Villuppuram (2 each), Karur and Dindugul (one each).
No fresh deaths were reported today as the toll remained at 15 which is a mere 1.1 per cent.
But the most encouraging factor is that the number of discharged patients saw a quantum jump today, with 103 people returning home after treatment, including 30 from the Omandurar Multi Super Speciality hospital here and 12 in Coimbatore, taking the numbers from 180 to 283–a recovery rate of phenomenal 21.4 per cent.