Month: March 2020

At a time when there is shortage of face masks, Ragini Sri, a fifth standard student of a private school in Kothangudi Saraswathi Amma Nagar in Chidambaram, has been making masks and distributing them to the residents of her locality.

 It has been 11 days since Karunakaran, a fisherman from Nemili, ECR has taken his fiber boat into the sea for fishing.
On his boat, he has employed five other fishermen who too have not ventured into sea.

Following the coronavirus pandemic, bars were shut from 17 March and TASMAC shops from 23 March, despite the outlets being the main source of income for the government.

DMK MLAs Sekar Babu and M Subramanian today handed over a letter from the party president M K Stalin to the Chennai Corporation Commissioner asking the civic body to use the Kalaignar Arangam in Anna Arivalayam premises as coronavirus isolation ward if needed.