
The level of infection in the state is still high but with more establishments and businesses opening up in Unlock 4.0, the situation is likely to go out of control.
Tamil Nadu is bracing for a second wave is f Covid-19 infections because many more services and establishments have been opened up even though the first one shows no signs of abating. Since the pandemic outbreak in March, more than 7600 deaths have been recorded in the state. The number of new cases remain high, just short of 6,000 a day, which means that the first wave is still strong in the state.
A seeo-prevalence study in Chennai indicated that as much as 20 percent of the city’s population, which account for one-eighth of the state’s total population, could be infected. Anecdotal evidence, too, points to a massive jump in infection rates. In the past two days alone, 60 Covid positive cases were detected in an old age home on the southern outskirts of Chennai. In a Facebook post, which has independently confirmed, the organisation running it said that the infected woman were taken to three government hospitals.
Many prominent persons were in hospital. S.P. Balasubramaniyan, whose melodious voice has enthralled many generations of Indians is fighting for life at a private hospital. He is on the support of a ventilator and an extra corporeal membrane oxegenation machine (ECMO). The first Member of Parliament to fall victim to Covid infection is from Tamil Nadu-H.P. Vasanthakumar, a Congress MP from Kanyakumari and a businessman.