The official coronavirus updates today show Chennai maintaining the low numbers of the recent two days recording 1216 new cases while the rest of Tamil Nadu has shot up to 4231. The state now has 1,26,581 patients out of whom 73728 are in Chennai alone. The death toll has now risen up to 1765 after 65 new deaths in the last twenty-four hours.

After Chennai the other districts data today is Tiruvallur- 364, Virudhunagar- 289, Madurai- 262, Kallakurichi- 254, Tuticorin- 196, Chengalpet- 169 and Tirunelveli - 110. There are now 46652 active cases in TN with 20271 in Chennai and the rest in the other states.

On the positive side Tamil Nadu has amped up the testing to the highest in India with 41,038 today and 14,91,783 overall to date. Today the high number of 3994 patients have been discharged in the state today taking up the tally of recoveries to 78,161.