CM said that Capital city Chennai, which is also the largest in the state, is densely populated due to which the number of COVID-19 cases is more
CHENNAI| On Thursday Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said there is nothing that the administration will gain by hiding the number of Covid-19 deaths. The issue holds peak after reports started coming in when Chennai’s COVID-19 toll surfaced. The CM said, “We don’t hide the number of deaths, we won’t gain anything if we do that,” while talking to reporters.
CM of the state said that Capital city Chennai, which is also the largest in the state, is densely populated due to which the number of COVID-19 cases is more.
The CM also said there is no community transmission of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu and that the virus has been contained is most districts. Reports have emerged suggesting over 250 COVID-19 fatalities have gone unreported in Chennai.
Following the IANS report, the work on reconciliation of COVID-19 death figures n Chennai has already begun with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC).
TS Selvavinayagam, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine said, “An expert committee has been constituted and it will go into the details of the data submitted by the GCC.”
After Maharashtra Tamil Nadu has the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases after Maharashtra with nearly 37,000 people infected by the virus till date. The COVID-19 death toll in the state stands at 326 of which Chennai accounts for nearly 260 fatalities.
The national Covid-19 tally on Thursday jumped to 286,579 including 141,028 recoveries while the death toll stands at 8,102. The noteworthy fact is that the number of recovered patients across India is greater than the active Covid-19 cases in the country.
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