Chennai: Even as the number of Covid cases is on the rise, Tamilnadu on Thursday night reported 890 fresh infections. Of these, Chennai accounted for 397 cases with the test positivity rate of 1.4 per cent — double the state’s average.
The State recorded seven more deaths, taking the toll to 36,765. There were two deaths in Coimbatore and one each in Ariyalur, Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Tirunelveli. Another 608 patients were discharged, taking the recoveries to 27,03,196.
Overall, 141 patients had S-gene dropout in TN, and 46 were found to be infected with the Omicron variant. Among them, 29 got discharged and 17 are undergoing treatment.
A total of 1,69,676 persons, including 93,218 persons aged 18 to 44 years and 46,282 persons aged 45 to 59 years, were vaccinated. This took the overall coverage of government vaccination centres so far to 8,09,97,899.