Chennai has got a significant sight of hope in beating the COVID-19 pandemic after the city has reported zero deaths on Sunday, for the first time in 139 days. According to reports, the city has reported no deaths in the last 24 hours and it has joined the club of 20 districts with zero Covid deaths on Sunday. 

According to the state health department, Tamil Nadu has reported 2,775 fresh COVID-19 cases, 3,188 discharges, and 47 deaths on Sunday. While Chennai and 19 other districts didn't report a single Covid death on Sunday, Salem has topped the table with nine deaths followed by Coimbatore (7), Cuddalore (5), Vellore (4), Erode (3), Dharmapuri, Namakkal, Thanjavur, Tiruvannamalai, Thiruvarur, and Tiruppur had reported two deaths each. 

Kancheepuram, Kanyakumari, Mayiladhuthurai, Nagapattinam, Nilgiris, Thiruvallur, and Tirunelveli had reported one death each. Among the 47 fatalities on Sunday, nine people didn't have any comorbidities or pre-existing illnesses. Chennai has reported 171 new cases that took the city's total tally to 5,35,044 so far. In total, Chennai has recorded 8,256 Covid deaths so far as of Sunday. 

As per the bulletin from the state health department, Tamil Nadu has recorded 25,18,786 Covid cases so far as of Sunday of which 32,307 are active, 24,53,061 have been discharged, and 33,418 had succumbed to the viral infection. Tamil Nadu's COVID-19 death toll is the third highest in the country after Maharashtra (1,25,878) and Karnataka (35,835). Tamil Nadu's present case fatality ratio continues to stand at around 1.3%. 

The health department has said that the state has vaccinated 1,02,904 people on Sunday. Health Minister Ma Subramanian has said that the Union government has supplied only 1.6 crore doses while the state needed 11.5 crore vaccine doses. He said that all the five lakh doses, which the state had received on Saturday, were dispatched to all the districts on the same day. On Sunday, Subramanian has inaugurated the awareness campaign commemorating World Population Day and he asserted that the government has ramped up the measures to prevent Dengue and Zika virus in the state.