Chennai: The number of daily Covid-19 infections, which was hovering over 700 during the last few weeks in Tamilnadu, dropped to 698 on Thursday, taking the caseload to 27,33,346, the Health department said.
Chennai remained at the top of the table with 125 fresh cases, followed by Coimbatore with 112. There were 60 cases in Erode, while Chengalpattu and Tiruppur had 53 and 47 cases, respectively. A total of 42 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Salem and 38 in Namakkal.
The test positivity rate of the State stood at 0.7 per cent after 1,01,794 samples were tested in the past 24 hours. Chennai’s TPR stood at 1 per cent. The highest TPR of 1.3 per cent was in Tirupur and Namakkal. Currently, there are 7,883 active cases in Tamilnadu.
A total of 22 districts had fewer than 100 active cases each. Tenkasi had the least number of active cases, at five.
As many as 746 people were discharged from several hospitals across the State, taking total recoveries to 26,88,888.