Chennai, Tamil Nadu Omicron Coronavirus Cases Live Updates, Chennai Omicron Covid-19 Cases Today News Live, Chennai Curfew, Lockdown Guidelines, 21 January: Chennai continued to lead the overall districts by recording 7,520 cases on Thursday.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Live News: Amidst surge in Covid-19 infections, CM MK Stalin has announced complete lockdown from January 23 in Tamil Nadu. Chennai accounts of a total 6,76,147 Covid cases. As many as 8,011 were discharged on December 20 leaving 62,007 active infections.
In view of the rising Covid-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, state Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy on Friday announced that all semester examinations for colleges across the state will be conducted online between February 1 to February 20.
Actor Siddharth has been summoned by the Greater Chennai Police over his controversial tweet against Indian ace shutter Saina Nehwal. Addressing reporters on Thursday, Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal said, “We have received two complaints regarding (the tweet). A case had already been registered over one of the complaints in Hyderabad, the second complaint involves a defamation. We have already issued a summons. Since it is a pandemic period, we are thinking how we can get his statement.”
In other news, the death of a Class 12 girl, days after she consumed pesticide in her school hostel, snowballed into a social media campaign and led to local protests by Hindu outfits in Tanjavur on Thursday after BJP and VHP leaders circulated a 47-second video of the girl purportedly accusing the school management of troubling her after she refused to convert to Christianity.
