Last month, the Chief Minister called the Speaker to dismiss the disqualification petition filed against the eleven MLAs including Deputy Chief Minister Pannerselvam. 

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 CBI has pitched on the probing grounds and filed two cases against the case of police brutality, which has been under public scrutiny.

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.

The skeletal remains of the first child were found on June 19 and it measured 75 centimeters while the second one that was exhumed on Tuesday measured 95 centimeters in length.

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

The girl was charred to death by the unidentified assailants and the district police department has installed ten special teams to probe the death.