Along with Chennai and its neighboring districts, Madurai would be going under the complete lockdown from June 24 to June 30 in the wake of the sharpest rises in COVID-19 cases.

Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has issued a notice to Tamil Nadu state government on the death of father and son under police custody.

The consensus between the neighbors achieved a week after the border troops engaged in the violent face-off and skirmish that resulted in the death of twenty Indian soldiers.

Tamil Nadu would likely hit the tally of 2.7 lakh COVID-19 cases by the second week of July and Chennai would account for 60% of cases in the state's tally. 

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.