AROUND TAMIL NADU

09.05.2020

TN issues around 50K inter-state travel passes

The state government, in the past four days, has issued more than 50,000 inter-state passes for people to move between states in personal vehicles. Sources said more than 46,000 passes were for outbound travel. “Nearly 80% of the total passes issued were to people who had registered to travel to Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka,” said a source in the government. Around 4,600 were inbound (entry) passes. “There were 18,000 applications the day the portal was launched. It has reduced gradually. On Thursday, we received around 3,000 applications. Applications seeking e-pass have reduced drastically in the past two days,” said the official.

Two test positive in Puducherry

Puducherry recorded two Covid-19 infections on Friday - a lorry driver, from Kutchipalayam in Puducherry who visited the Koyambedu market, and a contact of a Covid-19 positive patient from Villupuram district. They have been admitted to Indira Gandhi medical college and research institute (IGMC & RI) and Jawaharlal institute of postgraduate medical education and research (Jipmer) in the Union territory. As on Friday, Puducherry recorded 15 Covid-19 positive cases.

Stir against Tasmac drags in bad PDS rice

The second batch of 1,136 patients and their caregivers from Jharkhand, who were stranded in Vellore after treatment at Christian Medical College hospital, left in a special train to Ranchi from Katpadi on Friday. The first train to Ranchi left on Monday. Vellore collector said 9,093 stranded patients and caregivers, mostly from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, Manipur and Tripura, have been identified.

NEW FOCUS: People protesting against Tasmac outlets in Trichy also protested against the poor quality of PDS rice given to them