Chennai: Tamilnadu on Sunday reported record-high 28,897 new Covid-19 cases in a day. The State reported 236 deaths, and 23,515 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
The new cases include 28 passengers who travelled by road. Tamilnadu’s test positivity rate stands at 19 per cent. 42 percent of Sunday’s cases were from Chennai and neighbouring districts.
Chennai reported 7,130 fresh cases while the neighbouring Chengalpattu reported 2,279 cases. Kancheepuram reported 1,089 while Tiruvallur had 1,768 new cases.
The State’s active caseload has climbed to 1,44,547, while the death toll has surged to 15,648. Currently, the overall Covid-19 caseload in the state has increased to 13,80, 259.
Meanwhile, the Tamilnadu government has issued an order for the formation of a Covid-19 war room.
The already existing Unified Command Centre (UCC) in Chennai, will now function as the war room and act as the single nodal point for all Covid-19 related control activities in the State.
The UCC will serve as a command centre to monitor oxygen supply, bed management and inspection of facilities both in government and private sector hospitals across the State. This comes following the Chief Minister’s announcement on 5 May that a war room will be formed.
It may be recalled that the UCC was formed on 30 April this year, already acting as a cross-departmental leadership hub for Covid-19 control activities in the State.