More people getting discharged than those gettingnewly infected is seen for the third consecutive day today inthe State.
On April 23, a total of 54 new cases were reported and90 people were discharged and the following day, 72 testedpositive and 114 got cured.
The deceased man is the 23rd fatality in Tamil Naduand he died at Chromepet General Hospital here last night, agovernment bulletin said.
With 66 more people contracting the contagion, thoughthe total number of infected stood at 1,821; as on date, theactive cases were only 835 and the tally of those dischargedis 960 including Saturday's 94, the government said.
As of now, there are more people who have beendischarged than the present active cases, according togovernment data.
Among the newly infected today are six childrenincluding a two-year old girl and a four year old boy, bothfrom Chennai.
As many as 7,707 samples were tested today and tilldate 80,110 samples have been examined.
For COVID-19 testing, there are 30 labs in governmentand 11 in private sectors.
Chennai added 43 new cases today and the State capitalled the red zone (more than 15 cases) of COVID-19 map with 495cases followed by Coimbatore (141) and Tirupur (110).
Pudukottai and Dharmapuri districts have one case eachand these were among the least affected regions.
Barring the seven districts of Tiruvannamalai,Kallakurichi, Dharmapuri, the Nilgiris, Ariyalur, Pudukottaiand Sivaganga in the orange zone with less than 15 cases andthe only greendistrict of Krishnagiri -with no new case inthe last 28 days- all other districts feature in the redzone.
While as many as 27,277 people are in home quarantine,25 others are in government quarantine facilities. VGNSS