Chennai: Tamilnadu has reported 1,039 new Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths, Health department’s media bulletin said. With the latest figures, Tamilnadu’s total caseload has reached 27,00,593.
A total of 1,229 people recovered from Covid on Friday. Chennai and Coimbatore have the highest number of fresh infections with 126 and 118 cases, respectively.
Only eight of the 38 districts reported fatalities — there were two deaths each in Coimbatore, Namakkal and Thanjavur; Chennai, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Pudukottai and Vellore saw one fatality each.
The number of people vaccinated on Friday fell below one lakh — 99,500 people, including 60,062 aged 18 to 44 and 28,264 in the 45-59 age group — got jabs.