Chennai, July 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu on Tuesday registered 4,526 new coronavirus cases while the number of such patients cured and discharged from various hospitals totalled 4,743, the Health Department said.
With new cases, the southern state’s total tally is 147,324, including 97,310 cured persons. There are now 47,912 active cases in Tamil Nadu.
A total of 67 more COVID-19 deaths in the last 24-hour cycle took the state’s death toll to 2,099.
The number of infected children in the state in the age group 0-12 went up to 7,304.
The state capital Chennai continued to head the Covid-19 infection table with 1,078 new cases and a total tally of 79,662. Active cases in the city total 15,814, with 1,858 patients discharged in Chennai on Tuesday.
–IANS
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