Tamil Nadu reported an addition of 13,776 coronavirus cases on Friday (12,652 on Thursday) to a total of 10,51,487 cases. However, after 8,078 Covid-19 patients were discharged, the number of active cases stood at 95,048.
There was a sharp increase in the number of deaths registered to 78 (on Thursday) and 1,22,900 samples tested.
Chennai reported 3,842 new infections followed by Chengalpattu (985); Coimbatore (889) and Tiruvallur (807).
On Friday, a total of 1,09,429 vaccine doses were provided as against 99,219 on Thursday, according to State Health Ministry data.