Covid-19: New cases decline further to 551 in Tamil Nadu

Our Bureau Updated - January 18, 2021 at 09:33 PM.

The number of active cases falls to 5,725.

A hospital worker walks amongst patients with COVID-19 in the COVID-19 ward at Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. - The patents in this ward are not critically serious, but do require oxygen and to lie down. South Africa has become the first African nation to record one million coronavirus cases, according to new data published by the country's health ministry on December 27, 2020. Currently suffering a second wave of infections, of which the majority are a new variant of the coronavirus, South Africa is the hardest hit country on the African continent. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

New coronavirus cases in Tamil Nadu declined further to 551 in the last 24 hours to take the total number of infections in the State to 8,31,323. After 758 Covid-19 patients were discharged, the number of active cases declined to 5,725.

There were eight deaths registered and 50,501 samples tested.

According to State health ministry data in Chennai, the number of infections was 158 while all the other 36 districts reported less number cases.

Published on January 18, 2021 14:17