Chennai: Tamil Nadu reported 52 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Monday, with 47 of these cases being from Chennai, the State’s worst-hit district, a government media bulletin confirmed. This brings the total number of cases in Chennai to 570.
This brings the total number of cases in the state to 1937 with 24 deaths. The bulletin confirmed that 81 patients were discharged on Monday and as many as 1,101 patients have been discharged so far.
The bulletin said that 1,312 cases were men and 625 were women. Further, 111 children under the age of 12 have been affected by Coronavirus.
The number of active cases in the State went down to 809 on Monday as opposed to 838 on Sunday.
In all, 29,797 people are under home quarantine, 36 in government quarantine facilities, and 1,870 people are under isolation at hospitals across the state. So far, 94,781 samples and 86,339 individuals have been tested in the state.
*DMK criticises CM Palaniswami convoy allegedly causing a traffic jam*
A traffic jam was allegedly caused by Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami’s convoy on Monday. In a video that was doing the rounds, apart from motorcyclists who were not following the norms of social distancing, there was an ambulance that was caught amidst the vehicles.
The Chennai police said the vehicles were stopped for a routine check. However, the video drew criticism from the opposition DMK.
“Congratulations CM! A few days ago, you brought entire cities out on to the road because of your lockdown within a lockdown. Now, you bring the city traffic and ambulances to a standstill. Your humility is amazing,” Kanimozhi tweeted on Monday.
The senior DMK leader was talking about the Chief Minister’s move for a total lockdown in five cities in the State that brought scores of people lining up at grocery stores as panic buying gripped these cities ahead of the complete lockdown.
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