Active Covid cases drop to 233 in Madurai, 506 in Trichy

MADURAI/TRICHY: Madurai district reported 19 new Covid-19 cases and 25 recoveries on Monday pushing down the number of active cases to 233. Meanwhile Trichy reported 47 fresh cases as the numbers have been hovering below 50 for the last ten days. The number of active cases also dropped to 506 from Sunday’s 514 with the district reporting 52 recoveries.The district recorded three deaths taking the toll to 1,047.
A total of 104 new cases were added by the ten southern districts of Tamil Nadu to the tally on Monday, with Madurai recording the highest. Madurai is followed by Tirunelveli (17), Kanyakumari (13), Sivagangai (12), Dindigul, Virudhunagar, and Tuticorin (10 cases each), Ramanathapuram (9), Theni (3) and Tenkasi (1). The southern region reported 136 recoveries with seven of the districts recording recoveries more than the number of new cases. The number of active cases in the region dropped to 1,406. The lone Covid-19 death recorded in the southern region on Monday is a 68-year-old woman in Kanyakumari district.
The nine central districts recorded 194 fresh cases. The region recorded 2,657 active cases on Monday, while it was 2,746 on Sunday. The region also discharged 279 patients. The regional toll climbed to 4,355 on Monday with five casualties. tnn