This story is from January 17, 2021

Chennai had 4 of 6 fresh Covid deaths, 6,128 fighting infection in Tamil Nadu

The state discharged 775 patients from the Covid-19 registry and added 610 fresh cases on Saturday, which pushed the cumulative case tally to 8,30,183. Active cases dropped to 6,128 from 8,272 on January 2.
Chennai had 4 of 6 fresh Covid deaths, 6,128 fighting infection in Tamil Nadu
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CHENNAI: The state discharged 775 patients from the Covid-19 registry and added 610 fresh cases on Saturday, which pushed the cumulative case tally to 8,30,183. Active cases dropped to 6,128 from 8,272 on January 2.
The state reported six deaths due to the viral infection until Saturday noon, which took the Covid-19 death toll to 12,257. Barring Chennai
(4) and Chengalpet (2), there were no other Covid-19 deaths reported in the state.
The case fatality rate – number of patients dead over the total number of people tested positive – stood at 1.48%. Infectious diseases experts and critical care specialists say most deaths in TN were among patients with comorbid conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, heart disease, renal ailments or cancer.
On Saturday, 52,049 people underwent RT-PCR in the 251 authorised labs. The state has tested more than 1.48 crore people since February. More than 85% of the tests done in the state were done in the 67 government labs free of cost.
Ariyalur and Perambalur districts reported zero cases on Saturday. With 176 people testing positive, Chennai continued to top the new cases table followed by Coimbatore, which reported 80 new cases. All other districts reported cases below 40, and 17 districts reported a single-digit increase — the Nilgiris (8), Dharmapuri (7), Karur (7), Cuddalore (6), Nagapattinam
(6), Ranipet (6), Sivaganga (6), Theni (6), Tirupathur (6), Tuticorin (6), Villupuram (6), Kallakurichi (5), Pudukottai

(4) and Tenkasi (4), Krishnagiri (3), Tiruvarur (3), and Ramanathapuram (2).
The eleven districts in the north reported 312 fresh cases and six deaths. All deaths were in the Chennai region, which reported 387 new cases. After the northern districts, the eight districts in the west together reported 159 fresh cases. The ten southern districts reported 86 cases, while the central districts reported 51 cases. The south, central and western zones had zero deaths.
Active cases were highest in the northern districts (3,199), including 2,722 in the Chennai region. There were 1,589 active cases in the west compared to 748 in the south and 576 in the centre.
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