No mask, it is ‘fine’: Chennai civic body makes wearing of masks mandatory, Rs 500 fine on violation

NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JULY 5

The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has made wearing of masks mandatory. The violation will amount to Rs 500 fine order to be effective from Wednesday, the corporation said.

In last 10 days, active Covid-19 cases have breached 6,000-mark in Tamil Nadu where Chennai had accounted for more than half the share.

Chennai and Chengalpet have been reporting majority of cases, while the remaining was spread in 33 of the 38 districts. The state capital leads among districts with more than 4000 active infections.

Meanwhile, India added 13,086 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,31,650, while the active cases increased to 1,14,475, the Union Health Ministry data stated on Tuesday.

The death toll climbed to 5,25,242 with 19 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.26 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98. 53 per cent, the ministry said. An increase of 611 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.