With more than 1,000 more novel coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, Tamil Nadu's Covid-19 count breached 22,000-mark today, according to state health department.
Being the second most affected state in the country after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu reported 1,149 fresh Covid-19 cases since Saturday, taking the total number of patients to 22,333, it said.
Along with that, the death toll in the state increased to 173 after 13 more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours, it said.
There are currently 9,400 active cases. Apart from that, a total of 12,757 patients have been discharged or cured of the highly contagious disease, including 757 such patients discharged today, the state health department added.