Chennai Closure News: Today’s Updates from Your City | Chennai News

Amidst the prevailing chaos and uncertainty about access to services and commodities during the shutdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chennai.
Update at 10.15 p.m.: The Tamil Nadu government specifically named on Sunday the type of independent outlets that could resume work from Monday, making it clear that only small jewelery and textile showrooms located in rural areas without air conditioning in rural areas.
Update at 9.15 p.m.: Tamil Nadu Prime Minister K Palaniswami said Sunday that economic revival will be the government’s top priority as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic. In a tweet, Palaniswami said the government has established a high-level committee on the state’s economic recovery.
Update at 8.15pm: Tamil Nadu continued to witness an increase in COVID-19 cases with three more deaths and 669 recent infections on Sunday, bringing the count to 7,204, but a senior official attributed the steady increase in recent days to aggressive testing and called on people who don’t have any apprehensions
Update at 7:15 p.m.: Three men died of COVID-19 and Tamil Nadu reported 669 new coronavirus cases On Sunday, reflecting the continuation of the recent trend of high numbers of new daily and cumulative infections, 7,204 people have so far contracted the pathogen.
Update at 6.15pm: Tamil Nadu reports 669 coronavirus cases, including 509 from Chennai, and three deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 7,204 and the number of deaths to 47.
Update at 5.15pm: Manipur guest workers waiting near Velachery, where the Tamil Nadu government arranged the bus to transport them to Central Chennai.

Update at 3.45 p.m.: About 1,000 Tamil Nadu workers, stranded in Maharashtra, arrived in Tiruchirappalli on Sunday on a special train, said a senior Southern Railway official. As the workers belonging to other states and trapped in Tamil Nadu have gone to their respective states, 969 men arrived at Tiruchirappalli from Pandharpur in Maharashtra.
Update at 2.45 p.m.: 28 states, UTs ban smokeless tobacco products, spit
Update at 1.46pm: Market Management Committee officials issuing passes for merchants and shippers to start operations at the temporary wholesale vegetable market in Thirumazhisai located in the western suburbs of the city in the Tiruvallur district on Sunday

Update at 1.06pm: Central government is considering gradually starting 25% of domestic flights after 3.0 shutdown, according to India Airport Authority President Arvind Singh
Update at 12.17pm: Many hospitals report deaths but do not send summaries. We have ordered all hospitals to send detailed summaries within 24 hours of death. This problem is due to summaries, says Delhi’s health minister on discrepancies in Covid-19 deaths in the national capital
Update at 12 p.m.: Migrants from all over Chennai walking on GNT Road to reach their places of origin

Update at 11.20 a.m.: Restaurants and hotels ask state governments to allow them to sell liquor shares
Update at 10.59 a.m.: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba to Video Conference with Chief Secretaries and Secretaries of Health from all states and UT
Update at 10:41: If the Tamil Nadu government is interested in opening Tasmac outlets, it may also forget to return to power, says Rajinikanth
Update at 9.41am: Covid-19 death toll rises to 2,109 in India; cases rise to 62,939, reports PTI, quoting the Union ministry of health
Update at 9.13 a.m.: National Disaster Management Authority issues guidelines to restart industries after shutdown in the wake of the Visakhapatnam tragedy, PTI reports quoting officials
* On Saturday, the state government further eased closure restrictions on non-containment areas, including permission for take-out services in tea shops, and allowed stores to sell essentials like groceries, vegetables and medicines remain open from 6 am at 7 p.m. the state.
* As Chennai still faces poor containment zone management and an increase in the number of positive cases, other districts in the state have managed to flatten the curve using an effective containment strategy.
* The Tamil Nadu government has formed a committee composed of economists, industrialists, bankers, and educators to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the state. It will present a report to the state government in three months.
* Since the Koyambedu market closed four days ago, vegetable prices at outlets in the city have skyrocketed. Brinjal, which cost £ 30 per kg three days ago, was selling at more than Rs 100 per kg on Saturday.