Chennai: Even as fresh Covid-19 infections fell below 1,400 in Tamilnadu, the State’s vaccination coverage crossed five crore.
Recoveries eclipsed new infections with 1,487 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 26,21,986 leaving 16,513 active infections, a medical bulletin said.
As many as 1,390 people tested positive on Thursday, taking the State’s tally to 26,74,233. Chennai continued to report the most number of cases at 173. Coimbatore followed with 145 cases, while there were 107 cases in Chengalpattu. In Erode, 85 people tested positive, while Thanjavur recorded 76 infections. There were 75 cases in Tirupur, 62 in Tiruvarur, 60 in Namakkal and 55 in Tiruvallur.
A total of 1,45,846 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 4,80,36,604.