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 at 3.11pm: Tamil Nadu revenue minister RB Udhayakumar, district collector and police commissioner inspect shops at South Masi Street in Madurai.
*Chennai has the largest number of testing facilities and hospitals in Tamil Nadu. Nearly half of the 33 testing laboratories are in Chennai.
*Update at 2.02pm: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami announces Rs 50 lakh and jobs for the kin of the frontline workers who die of Covid-19
*Ambattur zone (zone 7) of the Chennai City Corporation recorded its first Covid-19 positive case on Tuesday.
*Resident welfare associations are doing their bit to help domestic workers and daily wagers rendered jobless by the lockdown, distributing vegetable and grocery kits to them. In Chitlapakkam town panchayat, residents’ association reached out to more than 100 families with ‘essentials packages’. Residents of Kovilambakkam village panchayat too pitched in to help Panchayat workers.
*Chennai police block ‘short cuts’ on lockdown violators’ escape routes.
*A day after the first Covid-19 positive case emerged in Pudukottai district, nearly 3,000 houses in Mirattunilai panchayat were declared a containment zone on Tuesday.
*Update at 12.09pm: Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu calls Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to inquire about Covid-19 prevention measur.
*Update at 11.40am: Tamil Nadu government to distribute tokens on April 24 and 25 to ration cardholders to get goods from PDS outlets for the month of May.
*The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issues advisory to print and electronic media, asks media persons covering Covid-19-related incidents to take precautions.
*ANI update at 11.27am: Congress workers distributed ration and other relief material among the needy people in Anna Nagar area of Chennai, at the residence of party leader Peter Alphonse today amid coronavirus lockdown.
*ANI update at 11.24am: A hotel owner in Rameswaram is providing food at affordable price to needy amid coronavirus lockdown. Velavan, owner says,"As daily wage earners & poor people are unable to afford food items without income, so I am providing them food at affordable price".
*Tamil Nasdu government on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 25 crore to continue the disinfection activities to control Covid-19 in 14 corporations and 121 municipalities in the state.
Update at 10.38am: Resident doctors of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital threaten to boycott all Covid-19 related duties from 3pm. They tell the dean that doctors have been infected because of poor management and quarantine facilities.
*One in every five Covid-19-positive cases in Tamil Nadu till Monday was reported in Chennai, making it the largest hotspot in the state. With 303 of the 1,520 across the state, the capital registers an average of 13 cases a day.
*PTI update at 9.32am: Death toll due to Covid-19 touches 640; number of cases rise to 19,984: Health ministry
*Tamil Nadu found an emerging cluster of cases as 26 employees of a private television channel and three of their family contacts tested positive or Covid-19 on Tuesday.
*The number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, but markets have been crowded and arterial stretches like Anna Salai choked with vehicles since Monday when many central government offices reopened.
*Greater Chennai Corporation ordered temporary closure of around 60 markets and meat shops and police daily seize 1,000 vehicles of those violating prohibitory orders. However, places like the Koyambedu wholesale market, shops in Arumbakkam, Ice House and Sunday meat shops remain crowded.
*The curious case of some 60 people, mostly in Chennai, having tested positive with no trace of the source of infection has led public health experts to point to community transmission of Covid-19, though the TN government denies this.
* Update at 3.11pm: Tamil Nadu revenue minister RB Udhayakumar, district collector and police commissioner inspect shops at South Masi Street in Madurai.
*Chennai has the largest number of testing facilities and hospitals in Tamil Nadu. Nearly half of the 33 testing laboratories are in Chennai.
*Update at 2.02pm: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami announces Rs 50 lakh and jobs for the kin of the frontline workers who die of Covid-19
*Ambattur zone (zone 7) of the Chennai City Corporation recorded its first Covid-19 positive case on Tuesday.
*Resident welfare associations are doing their bit to help domestic workers and daily wagers rendered jobless by the lockdown, distributing vegetable and grocery kits to them. In Chitlapakkam town panchayat, residents’ association reached out to more than 100 families with ‘essentials packages’. Residents of Kovilambakkam village panchayat too pitched in to help Panchayat workers.
*Chennai police block ‘short cuts’ on lockdown violators’ escape routes.
*A day after the first Covid-19 positive case emerged in Pudukottai district, nearly 3,000 houses in Mirattunilai panchayat were declared a containment zone on Tuesday.
*Update at 12.09pm: Vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu calls Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to inquire about Covid-19 prevention measur.
*Update at 11.40am: Tamil Nadu government to distribute tokens on April 24 and 25 to ration cardholders to get goods from PDS outlets for the month of May.
*The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issues advisory to print and electronic media, asks media persons covering Covid-19-related incidents to take precautions.
*ANI update at 11.27am: Congress workers distributed ration and other relief material among the needy people in Anna Nagar area of Chennai, at the residence of party leader Peter Alphonse today amid coronavirus lockdown.
*ANI update at 11.24am: A hotel owner in Rameswaram is providing food at affordable price to needy amid coronavirus lockdown. Velavan, owner says,"As daily wage earners & poor people are unable to afford food items without income, so I am providing them food at affordable price".
*Tamil Nasdu government on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 25 crore to continue the disinfection activities to control Covid-19 in 14 corporations and 121 municipalities in the state.
Update at 10.38am: Resident doctors of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital threaten to boycott all Covid-19 related duties from 3pm. They tell the dean that doctors have been infected because of poor management and quarantine facilities.
*One in every five Covid-19-positive cases in Tamil Nadu till Monday was reported in Chennai, making it the largest hotspot in the state. With 303 of the 1,520 across the state, the capital registers an average of 13 cases a day.
*PTI update at 9.32am: Death toll due to Covid-19 touches 640; number of cases rise to 19,984: Health ministry
*Tamil Nadu found an emerging cluster of cases as 26 employees of a private television channel and three of their family contacts tested positive or Covid-19 on Tuesday.
*The number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, but markets have been crowded and arterial stretches like Anna Salai choked with vehicles since Monday when many central government offices reopened.
*Greater Chennai Corporation ordered temporary closure of around 60 markets and meat shops and police daily seize 1,000 vehicles of those violating prohibitory orders. However, places like the Koyambedu wholesale market, shops in Arumbakkam, Ice House and Sunday meat shops remain crowded.
*The curious case of some 60 people, mostly in Chennai, having tested positive with no trace of the source of infection has led public health experts to point to community transmission of Covid-19, though the TN government denies this.
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