Pondy reports 550 new COVID cases, 12 deaths

The 550 new cases were identified after examination of 1,602 samples, Director of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar said in a press release.

Of the total 13,556 cases in the Union Territory (after transfer of 18 cases to Tamil Nadu account), the active cases were 4,834. As many as 8,511 patients have recovered and have been discharged so far while the 12 fatalities in the last 24 hours ending 10 am today took the toll to 211.

The Health Department Director said that 431 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours. Fatality rate was 1.56 per cent while the recovery rate was 62.78 per cent. Mohan Kumar said 71,723 samples were tested so far and of them 56,819 were found to be negative.

Puducherry PCC president AV Subramanian tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday and has been advised home quarantine, health department sources said.

Mohan Kumar said that samples collected from Subramanian had tested positive. Subramanian, the former Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly, has been placed under home quarantine.