Tamil Nadu registers 1,580 cases, 22 deaths

CHENNAI: Fresh Covid-19 cases dropped to 1,580 on Monday compared to 1,608 on Sunday. New cases have come down for the second consecutive day, after the state saw cases go up for nearly four days last week.
Nevertheless, 20 districts including Cuddalore, Vellore, Tirupathur saw a marginal increase in fresh cases. Despite reporting a drop, Coimbatore was the only district in the state to report more than 200 cases.The western district reported 204 new cases compared to 212 on Sunday. Chennai reported a fall to 185 cases compared to 197 cases on Sunday. Three other districts Erode(137), Thanjavur(109) and Chengalpet(105) reported cases in three digits. "We are seeing ups and downs in at least 15 districts every day. This is because of new clusters emerging from birthday parties, get-togethers and funerals," said health secretary J Radhakrishnan.
Erode reported the steepest fall in cases from 160 on Sunday to 137 on Monday. The sharpest increase in fresh cases was reported from Cuddalore, where cases went up to 36 compared to 25 on Sunday. Virudhunagar(9), Theni(7), Perambalur(5), Ramanathapuram(5) and Tirunelveli(5) reported cases in single digits while 11 districts reported cases between 20 and 10 new cases. The 22 deaths took the death toll to 35,190. The cases tally touched 26.35 lakh. After discharging 1,509 people, there were 16,522 people on the active cases registry. Of the 22 deaths, there were six deaths in Chennai, four in Thanjavur, two each in Chengalpattu, Tiruppur, Mayiladuthurai and Madurai. While Erode, Kancheepuram, Vellore and Nagapattinam reported one death each, 28 other districts reported zero deaths.
Meanwhile, 2.31 lakh people took vaccines on Monday taking the total dosage tally to 3.82 crore at the government vaccination centres. The number of vaccinations in private hospitals since May 1 touched 23.06 lakh. The 28 lakh vaccinations on Sunday, pushed the average vaccinations in the last 13 days to 5.9 lakh a day.