Madurai has emerged as the virus epicenter in the southern district. In the last month, the temple city has recorded more than 4,000 COVID-19 cases.

'Doubling time' is the parameter that measures the time taken for the number of positive cases to get doubled in the city.

The restaurant has been making such parotta masks since Tuesday and since then, the newly introduced parotta has been the talk of the town.

On Wednesday, Tamil Nadu School Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan said that the government school students in the state will be learning their studies through television channels from July 13.

Madurai has become a superspreader of COVID-19 after Chennai and it has become the fourth district in Tamil Nadu with more cases.

These incidents had created a furor and a challenge to the government in curbing the spread as well as monitoring the influx of people from other regions.

The volunteers held the awareness campaigns and they talked with the members of the households and explained to them about the measures and precautions to tackle the viral infection. 

The news that the minister has tested positive for the virus has broken out moments after he took part in the meeting with Union Minister of Power Raj Kumar Singh that held in the Chief Secretariat on Wednesday.

The revelation has come as the sequel of the fever camps installed and conducted by the civic body across the city to check and carry out testings for the patients.

Chennai had been reporting over 2000 cases for consecutive days for the past four days, the city's count stood below 2000.