Chennai: Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh who got infected with H1N1 has been admitted to a private hospital in Chennai, said Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Minister Ma Subramanian. The Minister also informed that Anbil Mahesh will be discharged in two days.
Addressing the reporters, Ma Subramanian on Wednesday said, H1N1 cases are decreasing in Tamil Nadu. The cases which were about 100 a few days ago reduced to 56 cases on Tuesday.
He said, till now 421 people have been infected with H1N1 influenza.
The Minister said that the state government conducted fever camps in 1,000 places on September 21 and in the last seven days camps were held at 6,471 locations.
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Meanwhile, Chennai also showed a decline in the coronavirus infection. On Tuesday, Tamil Nadu logged 537 new COVID-19 infections, pushing the overall tally to 35,81,516 till date while the death toll remained unchanged at 38,046 with zero fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Health department said.
Chennai reported a slight decline with 105 cases, as against 108 on Monday and Chengalpet (49) while the remaining infections were spread across other districts.
As many as 21 districts reported new cases below 10 while Kallakurichi and Tirupathur recorded the least with one case, respectively.
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COVID-19 recoveries increased to 35,37,998 with 502 people getting recuperated from the virus in the last 24 hours, leaving 5,472 active infections.
"The state capital leads among districts with 2,395 active infections and overall 7,90,182 coronavirus cases. A total of 15,465 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, pushing the cumulative number of tests to 6,93,79,126 till date," the bulletin said.
(With PTI inputs)