Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.
* Update art 1.15pm: DMK president M K Stalin condemns Centre's decisions to stop MPLADs for 2 years. Stalin says the decision is nothing but taking back the MPs' power to spend in their constituency. He wants the Centre to withdraw the decision.
* Update at 12.20pm: Traders, who procure the produce from the farmers, need not pay 1% market fee (that is collected based on the value of the produce) till April 30: Tamil Nadu chief minister
* Update at 11.41am: Hand sanitiser, masks, gloves and juice were handed over to the police near Ripon building in Chennai.
* Update at 11.42am: Chennai police commissioner AK Viswanathan seen giving sanitiser to the police personnel on duty near Ripon building.
* Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 toll rose to six on Monday with the death of a 57-year-old woman in Chennai, while the state government decided to conduct a detailed investigation of the fatalities, terming it a medical audit.
* After four sudden deaths of Covid-19 patients in Tamil Nadu in the past three days, the health department has asked experts to do a minute-to-minute analysis of their case sheets. An infectious diseases expert in the private sector, meanwhile, said the virus could be invading the central nervous system of some of the patients, besides affecting the respiratory system.
* The state is reeling under an emergency triggered by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Monday, adding that the one lakh rapid testing kits ordered from China were set to arrive on April 9 and will be distributed to all districts the next day.
* The Tamil Nadu government has announced free treatment for frontline staff of its essential services departments if they test positive for coronavirus. The treatment will be provided both in government and private hospitals. They will also get ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh.
* Update art 1.15pm: DMK president M K Stalin condemns Centre's decisions to stop MPLADs for 2 years. Stalin says the decision is nothing but taking back the MPs' power to spend in their constituency. He wants the Centre to withdraw the decision.
* Update at 12.20pm: Traders, who procure the produce from the farmers, need not pay 1% market fee (that is collected based on the value of the produce) till April 30: Tamil Nadu chief minister
* Update at 11.41am: Hand sanitiser, masks, gloves and juice were handed over to the police near Ripon building in Chennai.
* Update at 11.42am: Chennai police commissioner AK Viswanathan seen giving sanitiser to the police personnel on duty near Ripon building.
* Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 toll rose to six on Monday with the death of a 57-year-old woman in Chennai, while the state government decided to conduct a detailed investigation of the fatalities, terming it a medical audit.
* After four sudden deaths of Covid-19 patients in Tamil Nadu in the past three days, the health department has asked experts to do a minute-to-minute analysis of their case sheets. An infectious diseases expert in the private sector, meanwhile, said the virus could be invading the central nervous system of some of the patients, besides affecting the respiratory system.
* The state is reeling under an emergency triggered by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Monday, adding that the one lakh rapid testing kits ordered from China were set to arrive on April 9 and will be distributed to all districts the next day.
* The Tamil Nadu government has announced free treatment for frontline staff of its essential services departments if they test positive for coronavirus. The treatment will be provided both in government and private hospitals. They will also get ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh.
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