Chennai: Tamilnadu reported 1,594 new Covid-19 cases during the last 24 hours, said the State government on Sunday night.
Six people lost their lives to the deadly virus during the last 24 hours. The death toll from Covid-19 in the State currently stands at 36,790.
Chennai once again reported the maximum number of fresh cases (776). The district’s Test Positivity Rate (TPR) jumped to 3.1 per cent almost double the state’s average TPR of 1.4 per cent. There are presently 9,304 active Covid-19 cases in Tamilnadu.
As many as 23 persons were being treated for the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. So far, 121 cases of the variant have been detected and 98 persons have been discharged after treatment.