CHENNAI : Nineteen more people succumbed to the coronavirus in Chennai which reported a spike of 1,458 fresh cases on Saturday, taking the infection count to 30,152 and death toll to 251, the health department said.
With the department stepping up testing of COVID-19 in the state, 15,389 people were tested today, taking the cumulative tally to 5,50,643.This is the seventh consecutive day the state is witnessing more than 1,000 plus cases.The number of people who got cured stood at 633 on Saturday, totalling 16,395 till date, a department bulletin said.Active cases on date, including those in isolation wards, aggregated 13,503, the bulletin said.Chennai recorded the highest number of COVID-19 cases at 1,146 among districts today, aggregating.