Chennai: Tamilnadu has reported 2,458 new Covid-19 cases, including those of three returnees from Jharkhand and Bihar, the Department of Health said.
Of the fresh cases, Coimbatore recorded 270, followed by Erode with 175 and Thanjavur with 171. There were 164 cases in Salem. Chennai’s daily count fell to 153, while Tiruppur recorded 146 cases and Chengalpattu 131.
After 3,021 persons were discharged, the total number of active cases stood at 30,600.
The number of deaths registered was 55 and 1,46,394 samples were tested.
As many as 31 districts reported new infections in double-digits while there were no fresh deaths in 11 districts.
Chennai, the capital of the State, added 160 new infections aggregating 5,35,439 till date and the number of Covid-19 related fatalities is 8,272.
In the last 24 hours, 1,46,394 samples were tested, taking the total figure to 3,49,73,281.
On Wednesday, a total of 2,07,259 persons were vaccinated (3,35,466 persons on Tuesday).