The back to back death of father and son under police custody had triggered huge protests amid the Coronavirus outbreak. According to our sources, the locals say that the duo had died due to police brutality.

The Chief Minister has undergone the testing at a crucial time when the Chief Secretariat has got the grounds for the virus spread.

With the tally of 42,752 COVID-19 cases, Chennai is the third Indian city with the most number of COVID-19 cases after Mumbai and Delhi.

The decision of shutting down the third-largest city in the state has been taken in the wake of the sharpest rise of COVID-19 cases in the district, leaving the possibility of forming a cluster.

By this time on June 17, the state's death toll was at 576 and in five days, the state has added about two hundred deaths as the death rate in the state has been unprecedently soaring.

The research has been first of its kind in India which had detected the presence of the virus in the wastewater beds. 

Sitting DMK MLA Vasantham Karthikeyan is the latest one to spell positive for the virus and the legislator has become the second one in the party after J Anbalagan.

These four districts will see no relaxations in these two Sundays as by curbing the spread of COVID-19 in these districts, the government hopes for a sign of flattening the curve across the state.

By this time on June 16, the state had recorded 528 deaths and in the span of four days, the state has added about 170 more deaths to its count.

India has added over 1.5 lakh cases to its tally in the past two weeks and more than 57.3% of total cases and 71.4% of total deaths in the country were recorded by the nation's nine largest urban cities.