Chennai lockdown news: Today's updates

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.
*As Tamil Nadu continues to see large number of positive cases, the government has decided to deploy 100 more mobile fever clinics in Chennai to identify symptomatic people with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenzalike illness (ILI).
*Update at 9.30am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 4,167, cases climb to 1,45,380 in the country, reports PTI quoting Union health ministry
*Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 surge continued unabated with 805 more cases detected on Monday, taking its tally to 17,082, and public health authorities blamed it on the inflow of people from other states, especially worst-hit Maharashtra.
*Of the 93 returnees who tested positive on Monday, 87 were from Maharashtra.
*The toll touched 118 after seven people died at various hospitals in Chennai, which reported 548 cases, mostly from containment zones in Royapuram, Thiru-vi-ka Nagar and Puliyanthope.
*Health minister C Vijayabaskar said, “If patients show symptoms of flu, they will be taken to the hospital. Or they will be advised mandatory 14-day home quarantine.
*Chennai’s southern neighbours Chengalpet and Kancheepuram reported 54 and 19 cases each.