Covid-19 in Chennai: T Nagar residents urge health secretary to enforce mask compliance

CHENNAI: As Covid-19 cases surge, residents of Chennai’s T Nagar have written to Tamil Nadu health secretary J Radhakrishnan urging him to enforce mask compliance.
T Nagar Residents Welfare Association secretary B Kannan said, “With reports about a surge in Covid-19 cases, the residents of T Nagar, particularly those residing in the streets off the Usman Road, are a worried lot.Residential apartments are sandwiched between commercial buildings. When Covid-19 was at its peak, most streets in T Nagar were containment areas causing untold miseries to the residents,” he said.
V S Jayaram of the Motilal Street Resident Welfare Association said that most of the shoppers didn’t follow even the minimum protocols like wearing masks. “Most of the shopping complexes and commercial establishments in and around T Nagar seem to have given a go by to the Covid protocols. In order that the T Nagar does not become a cluster, we request the health secretary to enforce the rules very strictly,” he said.
The health secretary has been creating awareness on mask compliance and Covid-19 protocols for the past three days. Civic body officials said they were seeing better compliance now.