Chennai: As per latest figures released by the Tamilnadu government, till date 87,159 people have completed 28 days follow-up. A total of 23,760 patients were under active quarantine and 155 under Government Quarantine.
As on date 1,11,478 passengers were put under home quarantine for 28 days. Currently, 155 asymptomatic passengers from highly affected countries are being quarantined in quarantine facilities near airport and 1,878 are under hospital isolation.
At present there were 29,074 beds in isolation wards and 3,371 ventilators. According to officials, only because they quarantined these many people, they were able to put the pandemic under control in the State. Otherwise, Tamilnadu would have become another Maharashtra or New York, they added.