Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 110 deaths due to the Covid-19 disease, the second highest number of fatalities that the state has logged in a single-day till date, taking the death toll to 4.571.
Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 110 deaths due to the Covid-19 disease, the second highest number of fatalities that the state has logged in a single-day till date, taking the death toll to 4,571.
The southern state is the second worst-hit in the country after Maharashtra, by the COVID-19 pandemic, with capital city Chennai recording the maximum number of patients. In the last 24 hours, Tamil Nadu has added 5,684 new coronavirus cases taking the case count to 2,79,144. Currently, the state has 53,486 active cases of coronavirus. Among the fresh cases, Chennai reported 1,091 patients.
The number of people who have recovered from the infection has surpassed the fresh cases with 6,272 people getting discharged from various hospitals, taking the total number of recoveries to 2,21,087.
Coimbatore logged 190 cases while Tirupur and The Nilgiris registered 34 and 22 respectively.