Day: May 11, 2020

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought a report from Villupuram District Collector within seven days, in connection with the brutal incident of two men burning alive a 15-year-old girl from a village near Thiruvennainallur due to a dispute with her father.

With 798 new Covid-19 infections being reported from various parts of the State today, Tamilnadu’s coronavirus count crossed the 8,000 mark, with a total number of 8,002 cases.

At a video conference by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with Chief Ministers this evening, Tamilnadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami urged the PM to not resume train and flight services to Chennai till the end of this month, to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

The State police have arrested 4,54,016 persons for violating norms of the lockdown.

A senior resident doctor of AIIMS has been advised 14-day quarantine after he took off his protective gear and put himself at grave risk to save a critical coronavirus patient while shifting him to the Intensive Care Unit, a senior official said. Zahid Abdul Majeed, a native from Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, was not even able to break his (Ramzan) fast when he was called for shifting a COVID-19 intubated patient to the ICU in the AIIMS Trauma Centre, which has been converted as a dedicated COVID-19 hospital, Srinivas Rajkumar T. , General Secretary, AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association, New Delhi said.

A medical staff of the country’s elite counterterrorism force, the National Security Guard (NSG), has tested coronavirus positive. This is the first case of COVID-19 infection in the commando force that was raised in 1984 to render specialist counterterrorism, anti-hijack and hostage rescue responsibilities.

The neighbourhood of Royapuram is back on the top of Chennai’s coronavirus meter with 676 persons undergoing treatment. In the past few days, it was showing considerably low numbers only to return with a surge.

The Madras High Court today sought a reply from the Tamilnadu government on allowing devotees inside temples again. Due to the lockdown, though rituals are being regularly performed in temples, devotees are not being allowed.

China has issued a lengthy rebuttal of what it said were 24 preposterous allegations by some leading U.S. politicians over its handling of the new coronavirus outbreak.