The Tamil Nadu government has officially updated that today the number of new coronavirus cases is 54 a notably higher figure than yesterday's 33. and shooting up the total to 1683 so far. Chennai has contributed with almost half of the new patients with 27 testing positive today and the total is 400. Two people have lost their lives today to the deadly virus taking the number to 20 in approximately a month.

90 patients discharged today with the total number of recoveries standing at 752. Today alone 6,954 samples were tested and. 65,977 samples tested till date out of which 1433 are under process. The total number of infections in India has increased to 21700 and the death toll reaching 686. The relaxations if any of the lockdown will only come after the data in the next few days before May 3rd shows a marked downward trend.