Chennai: With Covid-19 figures crossing 15,770 in Chennai alone, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami today chaired a high level meet to combat the spread of the pandemic in the metropolis.
The Chief Minister visited the Greater Chennai Corporation office and had discussions with officials including the special officer Radhakrishnan, the civic body’s Commissioner Prakash and others.
He discussed strategies with the authorities and directed them to intensify measures to check the spread of the disease and show positive results at the earliest.
On Monday, out of the 1,162 positive cases reported in Tamilnadu, Chennai accounted for the lion’s share with 964 cases, which is again the biggest number of positive cases in a single day here that took the state capital’s virus tally to 15,770.
While 11,377 samples were tested on Monday, a total of 5,03,339 samples have been examined till date. The state has 43 government and 29 private testing centres.
Of the 1,162 fresh cases, there were 50 returnees from other states including 32 from Maharashtra and the tally comprises 685 men, 473 women and four transgenders, a health department bulletin said.