Chennai restaurant requested to down shutters on its opening day for violating Covid norms

A restaurant in Chennai was requested to close down on the very day it opened for the primary time following experiences that Covid norms have been being violated and the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Tamil Nadu authorities to deal with the pandemic was not being adhered to.
On Sunday, the state recorded its highest single-day Covid spike, with 10,723 testing optimistic. This took the general tally to 9,91,451. With 42 fatalities, the dying toll within the state reached 13,113. Chennai recorded 3,304 recent instances, the best amongst all districts in Tamil Nadu.
The state authorities Sunday issued a set of recent restrictions to curb the unfold of Covid-19. The restrictions, which is able to come into impact from April 20, embody an evening curfew from 10 pm to 4 am and full lockdown on Sundays.

The restaurant known as Wedding Biryani attracted an enormous crowd for its launch on Sunday, with many individuals queuing up at Velachery for greater than two hours. The place had given broad publicity to its launch, having invited fashionable meals vloggers and providing as much as 50 per cent low cost on meals on the opening day.

Vehicles have been parked in a haphazard method in entrance of the restaurant and because the crowd swelled by the passing hour, social distancing norms went for a toss. There have been additionally many who didn’t put on masks.
Local residents and passersby then knowledgeable the Greater Chennai Corporation officers, whereas some folks additionally took to Twitter and tagged the civic physique urging it to provoke motion in opposition to the restaurant.

Thereafter, a few police personnel reached the realm and instructed the folks to take care of distance and put on masks however their appeals went unheeded. Within a few hours, Chennai Corporation officers inspected the restaurant and sealed it for not following the Covid SOP.

Hi, the mentioned location is locked and sealed for not sustaining Covid-19 SOP. Thanks for bringing this to our discover. pic.twitter.com/vmvIHwmzpI
— Greater Chennai Corporation (@chennaicorp) April 18, 2021
In one other unrelated incident, 26 extra workers of Saravana Stores in Purasawalkam have examined optimistic for Covid-19.
Some of the workers have been staying in a dormitory which was positioned in the identical constructing that homes the shop.
In the primary pattern that was examined on Friday, a complete of 13 workers had examined optimistic. The second pattern check, which was performed on Saturday and whose outcomes got here on Monday, confirmed that 26 extra folks have been contaminated.

Some of the workers have been staying in a dormitory which was positioned in the identical constructing that homes the shop. The furnishings and residential equipment retailer at Kasiappar avenue has been closed. The constructing has now been sealed and the whole avenue barricaded.
While among the staff have been admitted to Communicable Disease Hospital, the others are in house isolation.