Number of Covid-19 patients in Kerala are increasing gradually while Tamil Nadu is showing a fall in the number of cases.

Sunday saw Kerala diagnosing 4,696 new patients with Covid-19 while the number of new patients in Tamil Nadu stood at 5,516. There were 46, 703 active cases in Tamil Nadu as on Sunday while the number of active Covid-19 patients in Kerala reached 39,415.

The day saw Kerala Government confirming 16 fatalities while Tamil Nadu saw 60 patients succumbing to the pandemic. The number of new patients diagnosed in Kerala are increasing by the day while that of Tamil Nadu is coming down.

The fatalities registered in Tamil Nadu has come down since September 13. While Tamil Nadu saw 73 persons succumbing to the pandemic on September 13, the number has come down to 60 on Sunday (with occasional minute changes).

Kerala Chief Minister Pinaryi Vijayan and health minister K K Shylaja had forecast early this month that the number of new patients as well as death toll are certain to increase manifold.

Tamil Nadu has not relaxed the aggressive testing  it has undertaken from day one. On Sunday, the State tested 84,338 persons for Covid 19 while Kerala’s figures stood at 41,630.

In Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram registered 892 new patients on Sunday while Ernakulam (537) and Kozhikode (536) finished second and third places respectively.

Chennai diagnosed 996 new persons on Sunday. Coimbatore (568) and Cuddalore (297) remained areas of concern while other districts showed decline in new cases.