Spike in COVID-19 cases keeps Corporation on its toes
The Hindu
Commissioner holds meeting with senior officials, issues a slew of instructions to officials
With the Omicron variant of Sars-COV-2 driving the daily tally of new COVID-19 cases in Chennai to a six-month high, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has strengthened its surveillance and intensified containment measures.
The city reported 294 cases on Wednesday, compared to just 136 cases reported a week ago. The last time the city reported case higher than this was in the last week of June when the second wave of COVID-19 was subsiding.
The city had a containment zone after a long time with a street in Ashok Nagar reporting more than 10 cases. The officials said that was the only street with more than 10 cases at the moment.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.