Lockdown in Chennai: Coronavirus cases update and latest news

The Tamil Nadu government has extended general lockdown till August 31, with total lockdown on Sundays. Stay with us for all the latest updates.
*The state and the Centre are yet to come out with a policy to reopen tourism, but individual tour operators are offering packages with flexi-dates in an attempt to create an environment to revive the sector when flights resume.
* Update at 11.46am: Madras HC asks Tamil Nadu functionaries, including ministers, to follow Covid-19 guidelines including social distancing while attending private functions.
India's Covid-19 tally crosses 19-lakh mark with single-day spike of 52,509 new cases & 857 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of positive cases is 19,08,255 including 5,86,244 active cases, 12,82,216 cured/discharged/migrated & 39,795 deaths, reports ANI quoting health ministry
*A zone-wise analysis of influenza like illness (ILI) cases detected at fever camps over the last few weeks shows numbers increasing in four southern zones even while decreasing in Chennai as a whole. For Covid-19 cases, Valasaravakkam showed biggest spike in cases detected at these camps, data shows.
*In an encouraging sign, the doubling time of Covid-19 cases in erstwhile hotspot zones like Royapuram and Tondiarpet is more than double that of the entire Chennai, corporation data shows.
*A 22-year-old man, who was getting treated for Covid-19 at a Covid care centre at Puliyangudi in Tenkasi district, committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling fan of his room on Tuesday morning.