Chennai: Tamilnadu has added 56 new coronavirus cases, pushing the overall caseload to 34,52,390.
Ariyalur, Karur and Mayiladuthurai districts were free of Covid-19 infections as of Sunday with no one under treatment here either. No fresh cases were registered in 21 districts. Of the 17 districts that reported fresh infections, only Chennai had figures in double digits (22).
Recoveries outnumbered new infections with 106 people getting discharged in the last 24 hours, aggregating to 34,13,745 leaving 620 active infections, a medical bulletin said.
The State did not log any new deaths. So far, 38,025 persons who were under treatment in hospitals have died of the infection.
A total of 35,500 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of specimens examined to 6.52 crore, the bulletin added.