Chennai: Till date 1,50,107 samples, including an all time high of 10,617 on Sunday, have been taken and sent for testing, of which 3,023 tested positive, 1,45,520 negative, while testing of 1,564 samples were under process and 9,391 samples are repeat samples.
State government officials said since the testing has reached its peak, the number of confirmed cases too will be on a high. ‘This will be the trend for the next one week. So, people need not panic. We have identified clusters and cases are mostly reported from there only,’ said a higher official.
The total number of persons tested till date was 1,40,716, which included 10,584 Sunday. In all 37,206 patients were under active quarantine and 40 under Government Quarantine, while 1,611 active cases were under treatment.
In all 2,362 suspected individuals were under treatment in isolation wards. The State has 49 testing facilities–35 government and 14 private labs.