Tamil Nadu on Friday reported 1,438 cases of fresh coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the state Health Department said.
The state also reported 12 deaths, taking the death toll to 232.
On the positive side, a total of 861 Covid-19 patients were discharged from various hospitals, taking the total number of cured persons to 15,762 out of the total infected number of 28,694.
The number of active cases including in the isolation centres is at 12,697.