Highest single day spike of 6,472 fresh COVID-19 infections in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 6,472 fresh COVID infections, the highest single day spike, with the tally inching towards two lakh cases while death toll touched 3,232 with 88 fatalities, the government said. 

More than three fourths of the fresh cases were from districts other than Chennai,



which continued to clock lower numbers, and of the dead, 77 had co-morbidities and 11 none, a health department bulletin said.

As many as 5,210 patients were discharged in a single day, the highest so far, and the cumulative recoveries and active cases stood at 1,36,793 and 52,939 respectively.