MADURAI: The number of new Covid-19 cases added in a day dropped to 10 in Madurai even as 28 recoveries were registered on Tuesday, thereby bringing down the number of active cases in the district to 160.
No Covid-19 death was recorded in Madurai on the day. In the central region, Perambalur district witnessed no fresh cases for the second day in a row on a day when Trichy recorded 33 and 424 active cases.
The total new cases in the ten southern districts dropped to 82, with all the districts adding less than 20 and Kanyakumari (19) recording the highest.. The four Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the region on Tuesday . Trichy witnessed one more casualty to take the death toll to 1,060. The central region comprising nine districts including Trichy reported 141 fresh cases and 1,807 active cases. The death toll of the region became 4,420 with the addition of five more.