Tamil Nadu reported an additional 27,397 coronavirus cases on Saturday (26,465 on Friday) to take the total number of infections in the State to 13,51,362. However, after 23,110 Covid-19 patients were discharged, the number of active cases stood at 1,39,401.
There was a spike in the number of deaths registered at 241 (197 on Friday) and a total of 1,52,812 samples were tested.
Chennai reported the highest number of infections with 6,846, followed by Chengalpattu (2,458); Coimbatore (2,117); Tiruvallur (1,284) and Madurai (1,217).
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