Chennai: Fresh Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Tamilnadu on Friday as it recorded 23,459 cases thereby pushing the caseload to 28,91,959 while the death toll rose to 36,956 with 26 more fatalities, the Health Department said.
Driven by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, Chennai recorded an all-time high of 8,963 Covid-19 cases on Friday since the pandemic began, health department data shows.
Chennai reported 7,564 cases on a single day during the second wave on 12 May last year, which the city surpassed on Thursday with 8,218 cases.
Recoveries too witnessed a sharp increase with 9,026 (as against 6,235 on Thursday) people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 27,36,986, leaving 1,18,017 active cases, a bulletin said.
However, out of over 100,000 active cases, only 7,629 patients are under hospital treatment, including 608 in the ICUs of government hospitals, according to the Health department data.