Tamil Nadu on Tuesday reported 3,616 COVID-19 cases and 65 fatalities, taking the tally to 1,18,594 and the toll to 1,636, the state health department said. The state crossed the 14 lakh mark in testing samples with nearly 40,000 being examined today alone, it said in a bulletin. The dead include 52 with co-morbidities and 13 with
none.
Two men aged 30 and 97 and a 25-year-old woman were among the deceased. Of the fresh cases, Chennai accounted for 1,203, reflecting a continuation of drop in new infections, while the remainder was spread across Tamil Nadu. On Monday, Chennai had reported 1,747 cases, 1,713 on Sunday and 1,842 on July 4. While the state's tally stood at 1,18,594, Chennai's share was 71,230.