Chennai: Though fresh Covid-19 infections in the State dipped to 720 on Tuesday night, Chennai saw a marginal rise in its daily count. The city overtook Coimbatore, recording 115 cases.
As many as nine people succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll to 36,481, a medical bulletin said.
After 758 persons were discharged, the number of active cases stood at 8,244. The overall TPR of the State stood at 0.7 per cent, while the positivity rate in Chennai stood at 0.9 per cent. In the past 24 hours, 1,00,048 samples were tested in the State. Of them, 11,806 were tested in Chennai.
The highest TPR of 1.5 per cent was recorded in Tiruppur. A total of 1,00,048 samples were tested. The total count touched 5,42,70,347.
Another 2,87,625 people, including 1,61,158 people aged 18 to 44 and 82,423 in the 45-59 age group, were inoculated against Covid-19 in Tamilnadu on Tuesday.