Coimbatore : With highest single day spike of 589 Covid-19 positive cases, the total affected in the district breached 15,000 mark, totalling 15,490 today.

The death toll also crossed 300, to reach 308, with 14 deaths recorded today, according to State Medical Bulletin.

Of the total, 3,713 patients are undergoing treatment at various hospitals and at homes in the district, which registered 498 cases yesterday.

In Erode, 127 positive cases took the tally to 3,177 of which 1,275 are undergoing treatment. Two death today took the toll 42.

With 497 new cases the total affected with virus reached 11,074 in Salem of which 3,382 are undergoing treatment and with three deaths
toll touched 146.

Tirupur also recorded 70 new cases, taking the tally to 2,719 of which 793 are under treatment. The death toll so far is 65, it said.