Chennai: Tamilnadu’s active cases breached the 200,000 mark on Sunday with detention of 30,580 new cases. Health authorities, however, said the rate of transmission was showing signs of reducing.
Despite the State testing 2,000 more samples, the number of new Covid-19 cases reported from Tamilnadu in the last 24 hours saw a fall, albeit marginal, compared with figures on Saturday.
On Sunday, the State screened 1.57 lakh samples, of which 30,580 tested positive; on Saturday the number stood at 30,744.
The death count, however, increased from 33 to 40 during the same time period.
A total of 24,283 people recovered from the novel coronavirus and were discharged from hospitals in the past twenty four hours. That takes the total number of patients discharged to 28,95,818.
The decline in the number of cases reported in Chennai continued for a week now, with the city registering 6,383 cases. Coimbatore reported 3,912 cases. With 1,841 fresh infections, the number of cases in Chengalpattu came below the 2,000-mark.