Anna Nagar police department had arrested 20 persons, including a woman, for rioting and protesting against the burial of the doctor.

Pudukottai district has reported its first COVID-19 positive case while the districts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri hadn't reported any positive case for the virus.

The residents were told by the local civic workers about the burial that had spurred and brought the rumor to the light that the burial could spread the virus in the locality following which they gathered to protest.

The state currently has 28 districts that have been marked under red zones, which are the hotspots for the virus.

Anand Bisht was undergoing treatment at the gastroenterology department in the All India Insitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi.

Chief Minister of Telangana Chandrasekhar Rao has issued a fresh directive of what he claimed as the decision taken with the interest of public health.

However, the government has reaffirmed that no relaxations would be awarded to the hotspots that fall under the category of red zones.

On Sunday, Tamil Nadu saw the graph rising again after the decline for the past few days in the number of positive cases.

In his last address, Modi extended the lockdown to contain the virus and prescribed some antidotes for the ailing economy.

The number of recoveries has been increasing for the past few days amid the second spell of the lockdown imposed by the state government.