Chennai: Months into the lockdown, the spread of Covid-19 seems to have been stabilised in Chennai with 88 per cent and 10 per cent active cases.
A total of 1,14,260 cases of coronavirus have been recorded by the Health department since March, out of which 1,00,643 have recovered.
Currently, active cases stand at 11,209. The death rate is 2.11 per cent. As part of rapid testing, on 14 August, as many as 12,745 persons were tested for coronavirus.
The pandemic has affected more men than women. As per data, 59.44 per cent of the patients have been male and 40.56 per cent are female.
Around 19.45 per cent of those contracting the virus is from the age group of 30-39 years of age. The Greater Chennai Corporation today gave an area-wise break-up of the places which have Covid-19.
According to the data, Ambattur has the highest number of active cases, that is, 1,492 persons have tested positive. Anna Nagar, a containment zone has 1,160 persons contracting the virus, Kodambakkam, which at one point of the lockdown was highly dangerous has brought the spread under control.
Now the active cases stand at 1,279. At least 1,079 persons have tested positive in Adyar. Manali, which had very few cases, saw a spike this morning. It now has 125 active cases. In Kodambakkam, as many as 11,686 persons have recovered.
Teynampet has the highest number of deaths related to Covid-19 with 358 patients succumbing to the pandemic.