Chennai Hyderabad Live Updates: Tamil Nadu tally crosses 8.39 lakh with 510 fresh cases, 4 deaths – The Indian Express

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Tamil Nadu Telangana Assembly Elections COVID-19 Live Updates: Tamil Nadu recorded 510 positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the state tally to 8,39,352. Among these, Chennai reported 142 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,31,563. The state recorded four deaths on Tuesday, putting the state toll at 12,367. All four of them had succumbed due to comorbidities. The state discharged 521 patients following treatment, putting the total number of recoveries at 8,22,468.

According to a bulletin released by the Health and Family Welfare Department of Tamil Nadu, 1,61,23,270 samples from the state have been tested till date, with 51,664 samples having been sent yesterday. There are 253 COVID-19 testing facilities in the state, out of which 68 are government and 185 are private facilities.

In a first, a live heart was transported between two hospitals in Hyderabad in a specially arranged passenger-free metro train, which covered 21 kilometres in less than 30 minutes. The Hyderabad Metro Rail facilitated the special green corridor Tuesday afternoon between Nagole and Jubilee Hills to move a live heart from Kamineni hospitals in LB Nagar to Apollo hospitals in Jubilee Hills, to save a critical patient in need of an urgent transplant.

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After 11 months, schools across Telangana Friday opened to physical classes for students of classes 9 and above. Express Photo by Rahul V Pisharody

Students of classes 9 and above stood in long queues, in their respective demarcated circles as part of social distancing norms. Hands sanitised and faces covered with masks, the next step was to undergo a temperature check. While this is the new normal in the post-COVID era, behind the masks were anxious faces happy to reunite with friends and teachers in the school. After 11 months, schools across Telangana Friday opened to physical classes for students of classes 9 and above.

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After the Southern Railway began allowing the public to travel via Chennai’s Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) and suburban trains in December last year, the railway body reintroduced the use of the Mobile Unreserved Ticketing System app (Mobile UTS) across the city’s suburban and MRTS train network on Monday. The app, which had been launched three years ago with the aim of curtailing long queues at ticket counters had been suspended during the lockdown and the initial unlock periods in Chennai. “It has been reintroduced now for Chennai users”, an official from Southern Railway told Indianexpress.com.

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For assistance on COVID-19-related queries and mental health support in Chennai, citizens can contact the Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) COVID-19 helpline 044 46122300 | Citizens can find the nearest GCC-facilitated COVID-19 fever clinic here | For lodging rain-related complaints and assistance during the monsoon, citizens can contact the GCC’s monsoon helplines 044 25384530 or 044 25384540 or the control room 1913 (available 24×7)

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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/tamil-nadu-telangana-coronavirus-lockdown-6-0-covaxin-covishield-chennai-hyderabad-tamil-nadu-elections-2021-campaigns-edappadi-stalin-kamal-haasan-live-7172316/