In Tamilnadu, fresh cases of Covid-19 infection dropped below the 5,000 mark for the second consecutive day yesterday. The patients currently under treatment or home isolation also remain well below 44,000.

Meanwhile, the state Health Principal Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan has said the liquid oxygen reserves in the Government hospitals are maintained at a very comfortable level.

The current requirement of liquid oxygen for supply to the Covid-19 patients under hospital care is estimated to be nearly 190 metric tonnes a day.

However, the reserve being maintained is a thousand metric tonnes, which is much more than five times the actual demand, as said by the Health Principal Secretary Dr J.Radhakrishnan.

After reviewing the hospital facilities in Madurai yesterday, he said the Covid case positivity rate has been brought under five per cent in nineteen districts in the state. He said the situation in Madurai, which once remained a hotspot for the infection has improved remarkably leading to nearly 600 beds falling vacant in the Government Covid facility in the city.

Meanwhile, Tamilnadu has set a record by way of testing nearly 82.5 lakh people and 85 lakh samples, all using the RT-PCR kits.