MADURAI/TRICHY: Covid-19 positivity rate of Madurai district dropped to 0.1% on Saturday with only nine testing positive among the 7,175 samples picked up. In Virudhunagar, which also showed the same rate, only four of the 3,688 samples tested positive.
In the region, Madurai was followed by Dindigul (0.2), Tuticorin (0.4), Theni (0.5), Ramanathapuram (0.5), Tirunelveli (0.5), Tenkasi (0.5), Kanyakumari (0.6) and Sivaganga (0.8). Trichy’s positivity rate was 1% on Saturday.
Madurai added 14 new cases and the ten southern districts 115 while Trichy had 57 and the central region 282 on Sunday. Madurai district had 11 recoveries, 143 active cases and no deaths on Sunday. Kanyakumari (23) added the highest number in the south while Dindigul, Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram had five each followed by Theni (6). The region’s active cases climbed to 1,329 from 1,314 on Saturday while three people died.
In Trichy, the number of active cases dipped to 554 from 566 on Saturday while the district registered two deaths too. Thanjavur recorded one death. Of the 74,222 positive cases so far, the district discharged 72,663. Active cases of the region came down to 3,223 from 3,273 on Saturday. The region discharged 298,174 patients out of the 305,475 positive cases registered.
