CHENNAI : The COVID-19 death toll in Tamil Nadu crossed the 8,000 mark on Tuesday with 87 more fatalities reported, while 5,684 fresh cases took the tally to 4,74,940.
The toll now stands at 8,012. Recoveries outnumbered new infections for the third successive day with 6,599 people getting discharged, taking the total number of people cured to 4,16,715, the health department said in a bulletin.
The active cases stood at 50,213. For the sixth day running, Chennai reported less than 1,000 cases, with 988 infections, while Coimbatore and Cuddalore logged 445 and 407 respectively.
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