Arun Janardhanan

Of the 202 cases that tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala until Sunday, 181 are still in hospital and only four of them needed critical care — admission in the Intensive Care Unit.

The list has been provided to the state by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). Of these 80,000 people, about 16,000 are already quarantined at homes or hospitals and the rest are right now not in Tamil Nadu.

State health minister, C Vijaya Baskar, said the five positive cases include four Indonesian nationals and their Chennai-based guide. All of them had been in quarantine since March 22. They are now being treated at the Government Medical College in Salem.

The initiative, in which waste is converted into ash and then this ash is used to make colourful tiles, started as a pilot project at one of the city’s landfill sites, but soon it will be soon replicated at larger landfills in other parts of Chennai.

The fishermen, who were sent food and provisions by the Indian embassy in Iran on Friday, hail from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.

All positive cases in India so far have been traced back to either someone with a travel history to countries with reported cases, or to someone in in contact with such a person.

The 20-year-old is currently in the isolation ward of the hospital and is stable.

His statement came in the wake of reports that he would be launching his party ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, scheduled for May 2021.

Rajinikanth was largely noncommittal about his party launch. In his speech, he often sounded like he would launch it only if people agree with his idea.

Sources close to Rajinikanth said he is likely to make a decisive announcement about the date of launching his political party after the meeting.

Murugan, 43, is a graduate from the Dr Ambedkar Government Law College in Chennai and practised in the Madras High Court for 15 years. He also served as the Centre’s standing counsel before his appointment to NCSC.

Top sources in the AIADMK said it may be a matter of time before Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal gives a clean-chit to the 11 legislators.

Anbazhagan was admitted to a hospital in Chennai on February 24 following age-related problems. His health condition worsened a week ago.

A division bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Krishnan Ramaswamy had passed Thursday’s order on a petition filed by K Gopinath, a lawyer and president of a Hindu outfit.

According to the complaints, the modus operandi in these cases was that accounts created on the online portal in the name of Army officers posted advertisements for sale of vehicles.

Coronavirus outbreak: There are currently no suspected patients with the virus admitted to any state hospital. But it confirmed there were 1,367 patients in home-based self quarantines for possible links to virus-affected regions and symptoms.

According to information from the state Higher Education Department, out of over 500 engineering colleges in the state which participate in counselling, at least 50 are on the verge of a closure.

While police confirm that at least 319 people have been cheated by Vallal Rajkumar Regan in Chennai city limits alone, officers are currently digging more data from districts as well as abroad to trace more victims.

This comes after Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said in Salem on February 9 that his government would not give consent for hydrocarbon projects in the area.