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32 fresh cases of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu
The Hindu
CHENNAI
Tamil Nadu reported 32 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. There were no new cases in 23 districts.
Five persons tested positive for the infection in Chennai. The State has so far reported 35,93,975 COVID-19 cases. A total of 66 persons were discharged in the State. The number of active cases stood at 385. Of this, Chennai accounted for 50 active cases, while there were 36 active cases each in Chengalpattu and Kanyakumari and 34 in Coimbatore.
A total of 7,073 samples were tested in the State.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.