The state recorded 5,127 new cases with 21 districts reporting fresh cases in double digits. However, 100 or more fresh infections have been reported in all seven districts of western Tamil Nadu. Coimbatore tops the chart with 649 new cases.
Daily cases continued to decline in Chennai (308 new cases) and its neighboring districts. But panic gripped residents of the suburbs of Chennai as 33 children from a private house in Uthiramerur tested positive. Although they were all in stable condition, Kancheepuram The district administration has planned to shift them to the local government hospital. After a patient from the district recently tested positive for the delta-plus variant, the Union health ministry asked the local authorities to take preventive measures.
state health secretary J Radhakrishnan Wrote all districts to intensify containment measures, track people who were in contact delta Different cases, and growth vaccine coverage.
Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan told reporters on Sunday that the government is planning to procure kits that can detect the delta-plus variant. Currently, the state sends samples to a laboratory in Bengaluru.
A total of 89,402 people got the vaccine on Sunday. The state has so far given the vaccine to 1.41 crore people.
With daily recoveries (7,159) once again overtaking the infection rate, the number of active cases continued to decline. At present 42,801 patients are being treated in health centers and homes.
As a result, the bed vacancy in the COVID health centers has increased to 1.38 lakh. It was around 54,000 on the same day last month.
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