chennai tamil nadu scaled a new peak in terms of active cases with 65635 people under treatment for the viral infection as on saturday the state added 9344 new infections while 5263 people were dischargedof the 39 deaths reported on saturday 22 were from chennai which also recorded 2884 fresh infectionschennai has 23625 active cases and has so far reported 4386 deaths at least 23 districts reported fresh cases in three digits of these 11 had more than 200 new cases after chennai the highest number of fresh cases and deaths were from chengalpet 807 cases and three deaths active cases in the district have spiked to 6263 together with tiruvallur 389 and kancheepuram248 there were 4328 new cases in the chennai regionthe region accounted for more than 50 of tamil nadus active cases testing in chennai tiruvallur chengalpet and kancheepuram districts has also increased over the last one week chennai corporation commissioner g prakash said the city which is testing 20000 people a day at present plans to scale up testing to 25000 we are doing this across the state health workers have been asked to track down at least 30 close contacts of people who test positive when we test more people we will be able to identify cases and isolate them early said health secretary j radhakrishnanas the state inches close to 1 lakh tests a day the health department is pushing districts to increase the number to 125 lakh a day the health secretary said meanwhile public health officials say isolating people early and initiating treatment will help keep fatality rate below 15in the west the highest number of new cases were reported from coimbatore 652 while in the central region it was trichy 323 and in the south tuticorin 261 the western districts together reported 1820 cases and three deaths while the 10 southern districts added 1880 cases and four deaths the central region reported 817 cases and four deaths