Chennai: Tamilnadu reported 602 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday night. The positivity rate for the day stands at 0.59 per cent. A total of 1,00,342 samples were tested during the last 24 hours.
On Tuesday, nearly 12 out of 40 staff working in a diagnostic lab in Chennai tested positive after they had a visitor from Maharashtra who was found to be infected. The lab has told the city civic body that other staff in the lab are under observation. Contacts of the lab staff including their family members have also come under scanner.
Meanwhile,during the last 24 hours, 691 people in Tamilnadu recovered from the infection, taking the total recoveries in the state to 26,97,244.
As many as five people lost their lives to the deadly virus during the last 24 hours, taking the death toll in the state to 36,691.
Meanwhile, 1.8 lakh people took the vaccine on Tuesday. The dosage tally in the State rose to 7.8 crore.