Besides being the capital of Tamil Nadu, Chennai has got critical attention from across the state and country after becoming one of the major cities in India to witness surging cases affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19) each day amid the strict restrictions and stringent measures. 

Despite ceasing the movements, suspending the operations of the establishments, and closing the borders, Chennai has been reporting more cases than any other district in the state. The city has reported 906 cases so far as of Thursday evening alerting the city's administration to enhance the mechanisms to fight against the virus. The Corporation has been aiming to contain the spread by containing the movement of the people in the city and it has issued fresh arrangements and directives to combat the virus. 

According to the reports, the Greater Chennai Corporation has instructed the management of all private and government schools to hand over the institutions to the civic body by May 2 - Saturday as the corporation has decided to use the premises of the institutions to isolate and treat the asymptomatic patients in Chennai as these premises would have larger and wider space to accommodate the people. Similarly, the corporation has already been using the premises of Anna University, Chennai Trade Center, and IIT Madras to treat the patients.

Adding to that, the Corporation has issued a stern warning against the local business units as the establishments would be sealed for three months if they found to have violated the health protocols and guidelines such as maintaining social distancing and other measures to contain the spread. The Corporation said that it would set up special teams to ensure that people are adhering to the social distancing guidelines.

In line with that, the retail vegetable and flower markets have been suspended at the Koyambedu market complex as the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has heavily imposed a ban on the movement of vehicles in the market by closing 14 out of 18 gates. The restrictions have been roped in to reduce the footfalls in the market as some of the traders had tested positive for the virus. The market currently permits the operation of the wholesale vegetable trade and the retail trades of fruit and flower in Koyambedu have been shifted to the Madhavaram area to reduce the crowd.

On Thursday, the Chennai corporation said that the civic body eyes to increase restrictions in three zones in the city to contain the spread. According to the corporation, the city has marked six zones as highly infected ones and these zones include Zone 4 - Tondiarpet, Zone 5-Royapuram, Zone 6 - Thiru Vi Ka Nagar, Zone 8-Anna Nagar, Zone 9- Teynampet, and Zone 10- Kodambakkam. Of these six zones, the corporation would be increasing the restrictions in Zones 4,5, and 6 which have accounted for 65% of total cases in the city. The Commissioner of Chennai corporation has, on Friday, announced that people who violate lockdown in the city would be imposed Rs 100 as fine and they would be kept under quarantine for 14 days.

As part of the technical measure, the Chennai police has introduced a robot cop installed with multiple functions to deal with the residents living in the containment zones. The four-wheeled robot can be controlled using a remote control and equipped with the camera for surveillance. The robot has a two-way intercom facility- one to make direct announcements to the public and the other one would listen to any communication from the public. It also has an LED display that will display the messages. The robot cop was introduced on Friday and deployed in a containment area in Mylapore and it would be used to deliver the announcements and messages to the people living the containment zones.