Chennai: One more lab has been approved in Tamilnadu for Covid-19 testing, taking the total number of testing facilities in the State to 120.
District Public Health Laboratory at Walajapet was approved for testing on Friday. With this, the number of labs for testing in the State has gone up to 120 (59 government and 61 private labs).
As many as 5881 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Tamilnadu on Friday. According to the daily bulletin issued by the State Health department, 1013 out of 5881 cases were from Chennai.
A whopping number of 58,350 persons were tested across the State Friday. While 5778 patients were discharged after recovery from various hospitals in Tamilnadu, the State saw 97 new deaths.
In total, there are 2,45,859 coronavirus cases in Tamilnadu, 1,83,956 have been discharged so far and the State has seen 3,935 death.