Frontline workers stand in queue for a health check up before getting inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination camp, organised by Greater Chennai Corporation, in Chennai, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (PTI Photo/File)
Tamil Nadu Telangana Assembly Elections COVID-19 March 31, April 1 Highlights: Tamil Nadu recorded 2579 positive cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the state tally to 8,86,673. Among these, Chennai reported 969 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,48,965. The state recorded 19 deaths on Wednesday, putting the state toll at 12,719. Seventeen of them had succumbed due to comorbidities. A total of 1527 patients were discharged following treatment, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,58,075.
Across districts in southern and central Tamil Nadu, the Edappadi Palaniswami government does not seem to be facing significant anti-incumbency. However, what appears set to cost the CM is his perceived “subservience” before the “Modi-Shah” duo of the BJP. In the AIADMK-led alliance, the BJP has been given 20 seats. In the 2016 Assembly polls, the BJP had got 2.84% of the votes contesting on 188 seats, forfeiting deposits in 180 and winning none.
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DMK leader A Raja (File Photo)
Responding to the notice served on him by the Election Commission (EC), DMK leader A Raja Wednesday said he never made any derogatory or defamatory statement against Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami and the AIADMK as well as the BJP are falsely propagating that he had insulted the CM. “I deny that I made any derogatory or defamatory speeches against the Hon’ble Chief Minister and I made any speech which would demean or defame women or motherhood,” Raja wrote in his response to the notice served by EC.
READ | ‘Never insulted Palaniswami…AIADMK, BJP propagating false facts’: A Raja responds to EC notice
Heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over isolated pockets in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry for the next five days, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said Wednesday. As per the forecast, since the dry land breeze from north-west is moving towards Tamil Nadu, the temperature may increase 3-5 degree Celsius between March 31 – April 4. The rise in temperature will be felt in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpet, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Thiruvallur, Tiruvannamalai, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Salem, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Kallakurichi, Namakkal, Karur, Tiruchirapalli, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Mayiladuthurai, Puducherry and Karaikal.
READ | Heat wave conditions likely at isolated pockets in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry for 5 days: IMD
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-phase-2-chennai-hyderabad-tamil-nadu-elections-2021-campaigns-aiadmk-dmk-live-7252202/
