An aerial view of Kamarajar Salai and Marina Beach in Chennai.Tamil Nadu Telangana Assembly Elections COVID-19 March 15, 16 Highlights: Tamil Nadu recorded 836 positive cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the state tally to 8,60,562. Among these, Chennai reported 317 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,39,131. The state recorded four deaths on Monday, putting the state toll at 12,551. All four had succumbed due to comorbidities. A total of 553 patients were discharged following treatment, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,42,862.
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has promised that they will urge the Centre to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) if they are elected back to power in the upcoming assembly elections. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami while releasing his party’s election manifesto comprising 160 promises which included providing free washing machine and solar gas stoves to ration card holds, conferring citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamils living in camps, providing government jobs to one in each family with no one already in it, reducing the petrol and diesel price, etc.
The East Coast Railway has notified changes in the pattern of trains services between Tamil Nadu and other states.
Extension of festival special trains
Former minister and AIADMK candidate from Natham constituency (Dindigul district) R Viswanathan was allegedly caught on camera distributing cash to voters.
In a video of the alleged act, Viswanathan is purportedly seen taking out currency notes from his pocket and distributing them to voters. In the first half of the video, a group of women is seen standing in a row and an alleged AIADMK cadre appears in the frame putting currency notes on each of their plates.
The women had gathered to give a traditional welcome (aarti) to Vishwanathan, who campaigned extensively in the constituency on Sunday.
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The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has sought to make effective use of technology and launched a campaign through LED screens mounted on four-wheelers to reach out to voters and highlight its various welfare initiatives.
AIADMK's Chennai Zone IT Wing Secretary 'Aspire' K Swaminathan said the party plans to take the effort to every nook and corner of the poll-bound state, where elections to 234 Assembly seats are due on April 6.
The LED campaign will highlight the government's work during the corona pandemic, besides rival DMK's "atrocities" against people, he said in a release. (PTI)
Three persons, including a police constable, allegedly involved in the manufacturing and supply of Alprazolam, a prohibited synthetic drug, were arrested by the Cyberabad police Monday. About 140 kg of Alprazolam, worth around Rs 8.5 crore in the market, was recovered from them, said police.
The arrested persons were identified as Gudikadi Linga Goud, a 36-year-old proprietor of Dr. Goud Laboratories in Hyderabad, Murududdi Vinod Kumar(27), car driver, and Maduri Ramakrishna Goud (36), a police constable at the Armed Reserve Headquarters in Medak district of Telangana.
Linga Goud is a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. “Due to his family’s traditional profession of selling toddy, he was aware of how toddy was made more potent using tablets of drugs like Alprazolam. Taking advantage of his education, he soon started procuring raw material from different pharma companies and processed the same in the pharma company of his friend Kiran at Vijayawada,” PV Padmaja, DCP (Balanagar) told the press.
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Makkal Neethi Maiam (MNM) Chief Kamal Hassan launched his election campaign early on Tuesday by going around the Coimbatore South Constituency, where he is contesting the assembly polls next month, and interacted with voters.
Hassan began the day by meeting citizens along the Race course road, a posh locality in the city, and engaged with morning walkers and joggers, party sources said. The 66-year-old actor then visited a gymnasium in Ramanathapuram, set up by late film producer Sandow MMA Chinnappa Thevar and demonstrated his prowess in Silambattam, a traditional martial arts of Tamil Nadu with a long cane.
Later, he interacted with the public at a road side tea shop, to understand their problems and garner support.
In a bid to reach out to people of various communities, the MNM founder also visited a fish market in Ukkadam area and discussed local issues with the people.
Meanwhile, members of Coimbatore Jewellery Manufacturers Association submitted a memorandum to Hassan seeking among other things establishment of a gold jewellery park in Coimbatore. (PTI)
Nine parents tested positive for Covid-19, days after 56 students a teacher from a government-aided school in Ammapettai village near Thanjavur district were found positive.
Speaking to Indianexpress.com, Thanjavur district collector M Govinda Rao said all of them are asymptomatic and the district administration is taking steps to curb the spread at the earliest. “We mapped around 24 villages from where these 56 students come to the school. So far 1,083 primary and secondary contacts of the students were tested and nine of them were found to be positive for the virus. We have brought them to the government hospital and we are doing contact tracing for them as well. We are doing this testing, contact tracing, isolation as a chain reaction. We are monitoring the entire process, we are testing all the students and the faculty in the surrounding areas. The schools have been closed, it will be reopened after the results. We came across reports about positive cases in other schools, we are gathering the data,” he said.
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Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam has declared total assets valued at Rs 61.19 lakh, up from the Rs 33.20 lakh in 2016, according to his election affidavit submitted as part of the nomination for the April 6 Assembly polls in the state. All of the assets were movable and he had no immovable assets in his name, which was the case in 2016 as well, Panneerselvam said.
The assets included three four-wheelers and he declared his source of income as salary earned as deputy CM and from his wife's agricultural income. His liabilities were Rs 65,55,411 he owed to his wife. His wife's immovable assets were valued at Rs 4.57 crore while the immovable property was Rs 2.63 crore, he stated in his affidavit.
Similarly, the assets of Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) leader TTV Dhinakaran also went up, from the Rs 16.73 lakh in 2017 to Rs 19.18 lakh in 2021. According to Dhinakaran's poll affidavit, the value of his immovable assets remained at Rs 57.44 lakh which he had declared in 2017.
His dues included Rs 28 lakh to the central government on account of imposition of penalty under FERA and liabilities in dispute included Rs 34.46 crore from AY 1989-96 pending before the IT Appellate Tribunal in Chennai. His liabilities were Rs 14.25 lakh. The movable and immovable assets of his wife were Rs 7.66 crore and Rs 2.43 crore, respectively while her liabilities stood at Rs 5.82 crore, Dhinakaran stated in the affidavit. (PTI)
Thol Thirumavalavan is the president of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) party, which has allied with the DMK for the polls. VCK has six MLA candidates in the fray.
Speaking to Indianexpress.com, Thirumavalavan said making VCK a political and cultural movement for social change is the aim of the party. "That is our main agenda. Electoral politics is key to achieving those dreams. We have been part of elections since 1999, and the growth of my party or Dalit politics is also a reflection of my life. Social media campaigns are just for hype; it is all about sharing posts and memes to build a perception. It gives a pseudo feeling that everything revolves around you."
"But you see, the ground reality is different. An example of this is the BJP. They have no base in Tamil Nadu as they are a communal party based on religion. Their base is in the RSS movement which is against social justice. They had alliance with the DMK, then AIADMK, and they have contested alone too. In the last two decades, they have been making attempts and still couldn’t make any progress because they have no stake in the lives of people, they don’t address people’s problems. Talking religion and God alone won’t help when your politics is hatred towards minorities", he said.
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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) conducted 237 fever clinics in Chennai on Monday. A total of 17,857 people attended the clinics, with swabs collected from 101 people who were identified with ILI symptoms, while others were provided with medication for minor ailments.
The most number of camps were held in Tondiarpet (Zone 4) where 39 camps had been set up, while Manali (Zone 2) had the least with three camps.
The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday issued notice to former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to appear before it in connection with its investigation into alleged insider trading in Amaravati. CID officials visited Naidu’s residence in Hyderabad and served him the notice under Section 41 of the CrPC.
The CID also issued notice to Dr P Narayana, who was minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development during the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) regime. The CID has asked both Naidu and Dr Narayana to appear for questioning on March 23.
TDP spokesperson B Umamaheshwara Rao said the YSRCP government was being vindictive and revengeful, and dismissed the allegations of insider trading.
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The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM on Monday announced candidates for the three seats it is contesting in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
The party named T S Vakeel Ahmed (Vaniyambadi), B M Aminullah Ahmed (Krishnagiri) and M Mujib ur Rahman (Sankarapuram) as its candidates, AIMIM said on twitter.
The AIMIM has tied up with TTV Dhinakaran's AMMK for the Tamil Nadu elections. (PTI)
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has promised that they will urge the Centre to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) if they are elected back to power in the upcoming assembly elections.
The announcement was made by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami while releasing his party’s election manifesto comprising 160 promises which included providing free washing machine and solar gas stoves to ration card holds, conferring citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamils living in camps, providing government jobs to one in each family with no one already in it, reducing the petrol and diesel price, etc.
AIADMK’s announcement over CAA drew sharp criticism from DMK. The opposition said AIADMK is trying to fool people with such double-standards. “If the AIADMK members had not voted in favour of the law three years ago, the law wouldn’t have passed in the Rajya Sabha test. I don’t know how the party is having no shame in making such an announcement, do they think the people of Tamil Nadu are fools?” a senior DMK leader said.
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A total of 220 flights will be operated between Chennai and major cities today, with 111 arrivals and 109 departures scheduled at the Chennai International Airport.
Tamil Nadu recorded 836 positive cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the state tally to 8,60,562. Among these, Chennai reported 317 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,39,131. The state recorded four deaths on Monday, putting the state toll at 12,551. All four had succumbed due to comorbidities. A total of 553 patients were discharged following treatment, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,42,862.
As of Monday, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu is 5149. Till date, 5,19,869 males, 3,40,658 females and 35 transgenders have tested positive for the virus in the state.
According to a bulletin released by the Health and Family Welfare Department of Tamil Nadu, 1,83,49,379 samples from the state have been tested till date, with 64,829 samples having been sent yesterday. There are 257 COVID-19 testing facilities in the state, out of which 69 are government and 188 are private facilities.
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BJP Tamil Nadu unit president L Murugan on Monday said there was no question of any resentment among party workers over the selection of candidates for the ensuing assembly elections as it had disciplined cadres.
Replying to a question regarding the reported dissent over the selection of P Saravanan in Madurai North constituency, he told reporters at the airport in Coimbatore that the BJP cadre, following strict ideology and discipline and always supported the decision taken by the party leadership.
“There is no resentment among the cadres as they are disciplined. Sometimes, the candidate is selected considering the background, strength and political work,” Murugan said.
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Seeking to make his maiden electoral foray from this Western Tamil Nadu city, Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan on Monday filed his papers from Coimbatore South constituency for the April 6 Assembly polls, where he will be taking on the BJP and Congress.
Hassan, the chief ministerial candidate of his MNM-led three party alliance, filed his nomination before the returning officer in Central Zone office this afternoon.
The actor-politician, who has been critical of both the DMK and AIADMK, is fighting on the plank of corruption and good governance. He later told reporters that though there were 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu, he chose Coimbatore to contest the elections since it was close to his heart.
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A male elephant walking along a railway track was seriously injured when an express train hit it near Pudupathi under Madukkarai forest range in Coimbatore on Tamil Nadu-Kerala borer early on Monday, railway sources said.
The elephant, about 20 years in appearance, was hit by the Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai Express from behind around 1.30 am, despite the train driver applying brakes on noticing it, they said. Railway personnel, alerted by the driver, and some locals, who rushed there after hearing some noise, informed the forest department.
Two veterinarians found injuries in the front leg, abdomen and rear part of the elephant which was lying on one side after falling to the ground under the impact of the mishap, and given first aid, they said. A crane has been requisitioned to lift the elephant and assess injuries on the other side following which the further course of action would be taken.
It was suspected the elephant could have come to the area after taking bath and drinking water in Walayar river in Kerala.
Local people said despite a warning board in the area, particularly in Walayar-Ettimadai railway section, to move slowly in view of crossing of elephants especially in the early hours, the train drivers some time don't slow down, leading to such accidents. (PTI)
DMDK treasurer and wife of actor Vijayakant, Premalatha, has alleged that Chief Minister Edappadi-led AIADMK forced them to quit the alliance by delaying seat-sharing talks.
Addressing reporters a day after the party signed a poll-pact with AMMK, Premalatha said TTV Dhinakaran will be their chief ministerial candidate and their alliance will emerge victorious in the upcoming elections.
“We had four rounds of talks with the AIADMK committee but nothing materialised. They were the ones to initiate talks through BJP and we formed the alliance. Even during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, they signed the deal with us at the last moment, giving us four seats,” she said.
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Among the candidates for Tamil Nadu announced by the BJP national leadership on Sunday, a candidate with the highest poll prospects is someone liked by her many rivals too: Vanathi Srinivasan, 50, standing from Coimbatore South.
Where top BJP Tamil Nadu leaders are known for their provocative remarks using the religion card to consolidate votes, Vanathi, the national president of the party’s Mahila Morcha, has refrained from such messaging. In the 2016 Assembly polls, Vanathi had become known for her innovative campaign ideas such as “Coffee with Vanathi”, “Ask Vanathi” etc.
Among all the BJP candidates in Tamil Nadu, Vanathi is among the best placed to win, due to her popularity and good image. The alliance with the AIADMK will help overcome the hurdle of her association with the national party that is seen as running a hegemonic Centre and is unpopular in large parts. The BJP, in fact, had used Vanathi to open channels with AIADMK Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami at the peak of the political crisis in 2017 in the party during Jayalalithaa’s long illness and subsequent death.
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The AIADMK on Monday announced two candidates for the April 6 Kerala Assembly elections.
Elections will be held for 140 seats in Kerala where the ruling CPI(M), led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, is seeking a successive term by bucking the trend of a regime change once in five years while opposition Congress-led UDF and BJP are seeking to dethrone the LDF.
B Naseema will fight from Mannarcad while RM Dhanalakshmi is the party's pick for Devikulam constituency, according to the list released in Chennai by top AIADMK leaders O Panneerselvam, Coordinator and K Palaniswami, the joint coordinator. (PTI)
A total of 2,82,937 people have been vaccinated in Chennai till date, with 7820 people having received their vaccine shots on Sunday, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) said on Monday.
DMK President M K Stalin on Monday filed his nomination for the April 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls from Chennai's Kolathur constituency, from where he is seeking a third term.
Accompanied by senior party leader and Harbour constituency MLA PK Sekar Babu, Stalin filed his nomination papers at Ayanavaram.
The DMK chief has been representing the constituency since 2011 and is seeking another term. (PTI)
Telangana recorded 157 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, pushing the total caseload to 3,01,318, while the death toll rose to 1,654 with one more fatality, the state government said on Monday.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 35, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts with 12 and 11 cases respectively, it said in a bulletin.
It said 166 patients recovered from the infection on March 14. The cumulative recovered cases stood at 2,97,681, while 1,983 were under treatment. The bulletin said 38,517 samples were tested on March 14. Cumulatively, the number of samples tested was 92,38,982. The samples tested per million population was 2,48,226, it said.
The recovery rate in the state was 98.79 per cent while the case fatality rate in the state was 0.54 per cent. (PTI)
Among the many small political outfits in the Tamil Nadu electoral race, with a support base that can swing results, is the Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), led by a former film director who also has roots in the Dravidian movement: Seeman.
A passionate orator, Seeman, who formed his party in the wake of the 2009 final assault on the LTTE by Sri Lanka, invokes in his speeches Tamil culture and identity, and stresses the need to go “back to the basics” or “roots” of Tamil essence. Rivals accuse him of exploiting Tamil sentiments, particularly among the Tamil diaspora, to build his political career.
Speaking to The Indian Express at his residence in Valsaravakkam, Chennai, Seeman, now in his mid-50s, says his candidates do not need to spend more than Rs 2 or 3 lakh each. “We raise funds from people. We got Rs 15 lakh from crowdsourcing.” He says his candidates are people who were “denied a space in popular politics”. Apart from 50% of the candidates being women, the NTK list has 13 Muslims, 55 Dalits (including 13 from non-reserved seats) and one Brahmin.
The years have seen Seeman’s evolution from atheism and Periyar ideology to Tamil nationalism. His party posters now depict him with vibhooti on the forehead; his temple visits are widely covered. In recent past, the sharp bend towards a puritan Tamil identity has invited comparisons of Seeman being “the Bal Thackeray of Tamil Nadu”.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK Joint Coordinator K Palaniswami on Monday filed nomination from his native Edappadi in Salem for the April 6 Assembly polls.
Palaniswami has won from Edappadi four times (1989, 1991, 2011 and 2016) and the region is among the strongholds of the ruling party.
The chief minister, who walked a short distance to reach the local Taluk office, submitted his required papers. Palaniswami is later slated to address poll rallies in different parts of the district. (PTI)
The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) conducted 202 fever clinics in Chennai on Sunday. A total of 5414 people attended the clinics, with swabs collected from one person who was identified with ILI symptoms, while others were provided with medication for minor ailments.
The most number of camps were held in Thiru.Vi.Ka Nagar (Zone 6) where 30 camps had been set up, while Manali (Zone 2) had the least with three camps.
The YSRCP on Sunday swept the Andhra Pradesh municipal elections, set to win 74 out of 75 municipalities and 11 of the 12 municipal corporations. Counting of votes in Eluru Municipal Corporation has not been taken up because of a High Court order.
YSRCP spokesperson Ambati Rambabu said the results reinforce the popularity of the government which has focused on welfare schemes. “The elections were held after two years of YSRCP governance and the results are a benchmark for the governance of Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. The massive results is due to the implementation of welfare schemes by Jagan despite the pandemic,” he said.
“Apart from implementing welfare schemes, the Chief Minister also paved way for development of the urban bodies. People in urban areas also supported the policies of YSRCP government and blessed with landslide victory,” he said.
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The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday announced its list of candidates for six seats it is contesting in alliance with the DMK for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election next month.
The CPI has fielded veteran leader Marimuthu for the Thiruthuraipoondi (Reserve) constituency. Announcing the names of the candidates in Chennai, CPI state secretary R Mutharasan said the party has nominated former MLA T Ramachandran, who is Krishnagiri district secretary, to seek re-election from the Thali constituency.
Former MLA P L Sundaram would contest from Bhavanisagar. Ravi alias M Subramanian, who is Tiruppur district secretary of the party, would seek his electoral fortune from the Tiruppur north constituency while former MLAs M Arumugam and S Gunasekaran would contest from Vaalparai and Sivaganga constituencies, respectively. (PTI)
Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan’s car was allegedly attacked by a young man late Sunday when the actor-politician was proceeding towards a hotel here after campaigning for the April 6 Assembly polls, a party leader said.
Haasan was not injured in the incident though his vehicle’s windscreen was damaged.
MNM leader and retired IPS officer A G Mourya tweeted that his party chief’s car windscreen was damaged and the man who “attempted to attack” Haasan was handed over to the police.
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The BJP on Sunday released its first list of 17 candidates for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. State president L Murugan, actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, prominent woman leader Vanathi Srinivasan and former party national secretary H Raja were among the prominent faces in the list.
The saffron party, which is in alliance with the ruling AIADMK, is contesting 20 seats and will pick its remaining three nominees in the coming days.
DMK MLA Dr P Saravanan, who quit the party on Sunday morning to join BJP, also figures in the list that the saffron party put out in the evening. He successfully contested the 2019 Thiruparankundram bypoll on a DMK ticket.
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DMK chief M K Stalin on Sunday said his party will continue to urge the union government to scrap the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and confer citizeship on Sri Lankan Tamils living in refugee camps in India.
In an addendum to the party manifesto unveiled on Saturday, he said DMK had all along opposed the CAA and campaigned against it and he even ran a campaign in Tamil Nadu collecting one crore signatures pressing for scrapping the law.
"The Central government will be urged to withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019," Stalin said in the addendum. The DMK in its manifesto has said that the Centre will be requested to include Sri Lanka in the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and give citizenship to Lankan Tamil refugees living in camps in India.
"I would like to reiterate again that a resolution will be passed in the assembly (if DMK is voted to power) and will raise its voice for scrapping CAA," he said in a statement.
DMK had questioned why Muslims and Tamil refugees of Sri Lanka were kept out of the ambit of the act and alleged it 'divided' people on the basis of religion. (PTI)
The ruling AIADMK on Sunday unleashed a charm offensive on voters with the unveiling of its manifesto for the upcoming Assembly polls, promising to implement “Amma Illam Thittam,” a scheme promising affordable housing for all, provide travel concessions to women, ensure doorstep delivery of ration items, six free gas cylinders annually for every household and solar kitchens for all. However, topping all else was the promise of Amma washing machines.
The manifesto also promised 150 days’ work under MGNREGA, as opposed to 100 days, free 2GB data for college students throughout the year, waiver of educational loans, measures to reduce soaring fuel prices, increasing the maternity leave period to one year, hike in pension for the differently abled, increase in old age pension to Rs 2,000, an organic farming research centre and government-run training facilities for UPSC, NEET, IIT-JEE, TNPSC aspirants.
The ruling party also promised to release all seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and push for dual citizenship of Sri Lankan refugees.
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A total of 249 flights will be operated between Chennai and major cities, with 123 arrivals and 126 departures scheduled at the Chennai International Airport.
AIADMK top leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami will be filing his nomination for the state Assembly polls today. EPS will be contesting from Edappadi constituency, aiming for a hat-trick of wins from the segment in his home district of Salem in western Tamil Nadu.
EPS, who has also been named the chief ministerial candidate of the AIADMK-led alliance will submit his papers at the taluk office in Edappadi at 1 pm and embark on a campaign in areas including Nangavalli and Jalagandapuram in his constituency, a party release said on Sunday.
EPS has won from Edappadi four times (1989,91,2011 and 2016) and the region is among the strongholds of the ruling party. Palaniswami had launched his campaign in December last and has addressed a slew of public meetings across the state. (PTI)
Tamil Nadu recorded 759 positive cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the state tally to 8,59,726. Among these, Chennai reported 294 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,38,820. The state recorded four deaths on Sunday, putting the state toll at 12,547. All four had succumbed due to comorbidities. A total of 547 patients were discharged following treatment, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,42,309.
As of Sunday, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu is 4870. Till date, 5,19,393 males, 3,40,298 females and 35 transgenders have tested positive for the virus in the state.
According to a bulletin released by the Health and Family Welfare Department of Tamil Nadu, 1,82,84,550 samples from the state have been tested till date, with 67,087 samples having been sent yesterday. There are 257 COVID-19 testing facilities in the state, out of which 69 are government and 188 are private facilities.
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