Chennai: Tamilnadu recorded 741 fresh Covid-19 cases and 13 deaths on Tuesday.
According to the media bulletin issued by the Health department, the State has 8,536 active cases. In a span of 24 hours, 808 recoveries were reported. With this, total recoveries have climbed to 26,76,825.
A total of 1,00,817 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 5,35,60,440.
Coimbatore and Chennai accounted for the majority of new infections with 119 and 114 cases, respectively, while the remaining was scattered across other districts.
The State has a total of 310 Covid-19 testing facilities. Of these, 69 are government-run centres and 241 are private centres.
As many as 23 districts reported new Covid-19 infections below 10, which include Tuticorin reporting zero active cases in the district, the bulletin said.