The overall tally rose to 1,07,114 with the 815 new cases while the number of active cases stood at 10,015 (1,389 in hospitals and 8,626 in home isolation), Director of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar said.
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Seventeen more deaths were recorded taking the toll to 865. The 1,138 new cases were identified at the end of examination of 6820 samples projecting a test positivity rate of 16.68 percent, Director of the Department of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar said As many as 51,584 patients recovered and were discharged so far. He said 8.18 lakh samples were examined so far and of them 7.47 lakh turned out to be negative. The fatality and recovery rates were 1.37 percent and 81.49 percent respectively. The Director said Puducherry region alone accounted for 760 new cases out of the new positives of 1138. Karaikal reported 142, while Yanam and Mahe regions reported 172 and 64 new cases of infection.