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 11.42am: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palanisami opooses abolishing free power to farmers as mentioned by Union finance minister
* Update at 10.44am: Fifty per cent of government employees start their work from today
* Update at 10.42am: Working hours of TASMAC wine shops increased be two hours. Now liquor outlets will close at 7pm.
* Update at 10.04am: Government employees arrive at secretariat by special buses operated from Chengalpet and other places from Chennai
* Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,029; number of cases climb to 96,169, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* Update at 9.13am: A special train carrying 558 passengers, including 292 Tablighi Jamaat delegates and 266 others from Delhi, reach Trichy railway junction on Monday morning
* As Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 count continues to rise, touching 11,224 with 639 fresh cases on Sunday, the health department has sent a comprehensive testing policy to the government for approval. Four people died taking the toll to 78. Chennai, the most affected district, reported 482 cases to take its tally to 6,750.
* A few hours before the Centre extended the lockdown till May 31 across the country, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami extended the lockdown in the state till end of the month with easing of transport restrictions in 25 districts where new Covid-19 cases are nil or have come down significantly.
* Western Tamil Nadu appeared to continue the good show it was putting up in effectively containing the spread of Covid-19. Four out of eight western districts – Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode and Namakkal - do not have even a single active case of Covid-19 as of Sunday. Incidentally, these are the only four districts in the whole of Tamil Nadu without any active cases.
* Private hospitals across the state have been preparing to prevent crowding at outpatient departments after non-emergency and non-Covid patients started turning up at OPDs. Amid the growing cases of Covid-19, these hospitals are preliminarily triaging and screening all patients, including outpatients, for the disease before they enter the hospital premises.
* While the focus on increasing number of Covid-19 cases has been on Royapuram, Thiru-vi-ka Nagar and Kodambakkam zones, statistics released by Greater Chennai Corporation show that the rate of increase in May has been higher in zones like Sholinganallur, Adyar and Madhavaram.
* Update at 11.42am: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palanisami opooses abolishing free power to farmers as mentioned by Union finance minister
* Update at 10.44am: Fifty per cent of government employees start their work from today
* Update at 10.42am: Working hours of TASMAC wine shops increased be two hours. Now liquor outlets will close at 7pm.
* Update at 10.04am: Government employees arrive at secretariat by special buses operated from Chengalpet and other places from Chennai
* Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,029; number of cases climb to 96,169, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
* Update at 9.13am: A special train carrying 558 passengers, including 292 Tablighi Jamaat delegates and 266 others from Delhi, reach Trichy railway junction on Monday morning
* As Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 count continues to rise, touching 11,224 with 639 fresh cases on Sunday, the health department has sent a comprehensive testing policy to the government for approval. Four people died taking the toll to 78. Chennai, the most affected district, reported 482 cases to take its tally to 6,750.
* A few hours before the Centre extended the lockdown till May 31 across the country, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami extended the lockdown in the state till end of the month with easing of transport restrictions in 25 districts where new Covid-19 cases are nil or have come down significantly.
* Western Tamil Nadu appeared to continue the good show it was putting up in effectively containing the spread of Covid-19. Four out of eight western districts – Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode and Namakkal - do not have even a single active case of Covid-19 as of Sunday. Incidentally, these are the only four districts in the whole of Tamil Nadu without any active cases.
* Private hospitals across the state have been preparing to prevent crowding at outpatient departments after non-emergency and non-Covid patients started turning up at OPDs. Amid the growing cases of Covid-19, these hospitals are preliminarily triaging and screening all patients, including outpatients, for the disease before they enter the hospital premises.
* While the focus on increasing number of Covid-19 cases has been on Royapuram, Thiru-vi-ka Nagar and Kodambakkam zones, statistics released by Greater Chennai Corporation show that the rate of increase in May has been higher in zones like Sholinganallur, Adyar and Madhavaram.
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