Total number of Covid-19 cases rise to 18,545 in Tamil Nadu

In Tamil Nadu, the COVID-19 cases has surged to 18,545 with 817 people confirmed positive yesterday. They included 558 from Chennai and 138 returnees from Maharashtra. The caseload in Chennai alone has mounted to 12,203 people. Six patients died of the disease in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 133, while 567 people were discharged after cure. Industrial activities in the state are gradually picking up momentum.

Defying the drag by the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial activities in the state are gaining strength every day. For example, the Tamil Nadu Government and seventeen global industrial houses inked MoUs yesterday in Chennai. They have an investment potential of 15-thousand One Hundred and Twenty Eight Crore rupees. When all the MoUs are translated into



operational units, they have the capacity to generate more than 47-thousand jobs. The investors include those from Germany, Finland, the US, Taiwan, France, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the UK, China and the Netherlands. 

Meanwhile, in the highly industrialized Kanchipuram district in the neighborhood of Chennai, most companies have begun their operations with fifty percent of the staff as permitted. The district administration says, out of the 4.13 lakh workers in about 650 bigger companies, only 33 staff have contracted Covid-19 infection as per the latest survey and others are reported healthy. Once the lockdown conditions get relaxed further, the companies are set to regain their full capacity in no time.