532 persons test positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu reported 532 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. There was a small dip in cases when compared to the previous day when 542 persons tested positive for the infection.
Tamil Nadu reported 532 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. There was a small dip in cases when compared to the previous day when 542 persons tested positive for the infection. In Chennai, 113 persons tested positive for COVID-19 followed by 66 in Coimbatore. There were 32 cases in Kanniyakumari and 30 in Chengalpattu. Three persons who returned from abroad and two from other States tested positive for the infection. The fresh cases took the overall tally to 36,04,337. A total of 469 persons, including 130 in Chennai, were discharged after treatment. A total of 3,626 persons were under treatment in the State. Of these, Chennai had the most number of active cases at 919. There were 394 active cases in Coimbatore and 291 active cases in Kanniyakumari. A total of 6,423 samples were tested. According to Wednesday’s data, the overall positivity rate stood at 8.7%.
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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.