Chennai: Tamilnadu continues to report a decline in fresh Covid-19 cases, with the State logging 1,808 infections on Sunday, pushing the tally to 25,48,497.
Four districts, three of them in the western region, contributed a little over 29 per cent to the fresh Covid-19 infections that the State recorded on Sunday.
In Coimbatore, 169 more people were infected. Salem saw 105 fresh cases and Erode 130. As many as 126 people tested positive in Chennai.
The state has seen a steady decline in cases since 20 July when it recorded 1,904 cases. The number of fatalities mounted to 33,911 with 22 more people succumbing to the virus in the last 24 hours.
Recoveries continued to outnumber fresh cases with 2,447 people getting discharged, aggregating to 24,91,222 leaving 23,364 active cases, a health department bulletin said.
Tamilnadu’s test positivity rate (TPR) stands at 0.5 per cent, whereas the State’s figure has reached 1.3 per cent. As many as 89,360 people were vaccinated in 1,376 sessions on Sunday.