Breaking all previous one-day highs, the number of persons testing positive for Covid-19, novel coronavirus in Tamil Nadu on Thursday sizzled at 3,509 cases, even as 45 deaths confirmed by the Health department today took the State's death toll due to the virus to 911.
Of the fresh positive coronavirus cases, greater Chennai alone accounted for 1,834, a day after what its Corporation Commissioner G Prakash said they have tested a record 38,000 people on a single day on Wednesday in the nearly 600 'fever clinics' conducted in the containment zones (CZ).
While the total number of persons tested today across Tamil Nadu was another high of 30,307, the overall number of persons testing positive for the virus till date in the State crossed the 70K mark to touch 70,977. Of the total fatalities, Chennai alone saw 694 deaths of Covid-19 infected persons. Again, the majority of deaths are traced to patients with comorbidities.
After Chennai, the red districts continue to be Madurai (203 positive cases),
Chengalpattu-191, Thiruvallur-170, Vellore- 168, Ramnad-140, Kancheepuram-98, Salem-59, Kanyakumari-47 and Tiruchy- 27 among others.
There was a large group of 151 persons under various categories of in-coming persons who tested positive today. They included 13 from Kuwait, five from Bahrain, two from Singapore, 32 from Karnataka, 11 each from Rajasthan and Kerala, besides ten from Maharashtra.
Mr. Prakash said they were equally focusing on the health needs of the 20,000 sanitary staff deployed in greater Chennai alone, giving them the needed facial masks, gloves, hand sanitizers and so on. So far, 202 tonnes of solid waste have been safely moved out of the containment zones in the city to a secluded spot and burnt, he said, adding, the ban on daily morning walks along Marina and in parks and other places will be strictly enforced.
