CHENNAI, Jan. 25 -- Tamil Nadu has managed to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, if the government details are any indication. A State which was about to top the table with the maximum number of positive cases, has brought down the number of new persons diagnosed with the pandemic to 586 as on Saturday evening. The 24 hours ending Saturday night saw the fatalities coming down to just two.
"This is a marked change from the weeks when Tamil Nadu used to test 6000 to 7000 new Covid-19 cases daily and the death tally per day hovered around 200 to 300 for many weeks. Till Saturday the State lost 12, 309 persons to the pandemic. But as on Saturday, there are only 5073 patients across Tamil Nadu. This is the State which used to have lakhs...