Chennai: Tamilnadu reported 802 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to a bulletin issued by the State government on Monday night.
The fresh infections pushed the caseload to over 2.71 million,
During the same duration, 918 people recovered from the infection and a total of 26,69,848 have been discharged so far.
As of now, there are 9,488 active cases of the disease in the state. The state reported 36,296 deaths due to Covid-19.
Chennai and Coimbatore reported the most number of fresh infections, at 122 and 123 respectively, followed by Erode with 77 cases and Chengalpattu with 62 cases.
No fresh case was reported in Perambalur and Tenkasi.
In all other districts, the number was below 50.