Chennai Metro Rail resumes Green Line Services

The train stoppage time at stations has been increased from 20 seconds to 50 seconds to maintain social distancing

Tamil Nadu govt urged to resume metro rail services

The State government has not made up its mind in recommencing Metrorail service so far despite the CMRL making arrangements

He called for severe action against commercial establishments and offices that violated social distancing norms

Only Tamil Nadu had 58 government and 61 private Covid-19 testing centres, said the CM

The number of passengers who were quarantined between May 8 and July 17 was 12,709 and 11,406 of them had gone home in the districts

Palaniswami also denied that there was any plan to extend the lockdown.

The number of new infections in the city came down to 1078 with 18 deaths as against a State total of 4526 infections and 67 deaths

This is the first of the seven pieces of advice for immediate action that the Leader of the Opposition M K Stalin has offered to the govt

Some of the districts that had more infections than usual were Kallakurichi 254, Virudhunagar 289, Thiruvallur 364 and Coimbatore 98

Officials are trying to get in touch with people who travelled or stayed at Chennai to know their travel plans