61 more test positive in central region
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The central region on Friday recorded 61 cases for COVID-19. It recorded one death in Thanjavur, according to the bulletin released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare. A 68-year-old man who had been suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome died at a private hospital.
Tiruchi and Thanjavur districts reported 20 fresh cases. Thanjavur reported a sharp increase as only three cases were reported in the district on Thursday. Contact tracing is on and source of the infection will be identified, officials here said.
Meanwhile, two patients who had been undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the Tiruchi Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital were discharged. The remaining six districts in the region reported less than 10 fresh cases.
KARUR/DINDIGUL: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “leaking” prior information on India’s airstrikes on Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 to an Indian journalist.
Winding up his three-day campaign in Karur and Dindigul in poll-bound Tamil Nadu, Rahul said the only reason that the PM had not ordered an inquiry was because “he is the person through whom the information was shared with the journalist. Else he would have ordered an inquiry to identify who did it.”
Though he did not name him, Rahul was referring to Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami’s leaked WhatsApp chats. Sharpening his attack on Modi, Rahul brought up the Balakot airstrike issue during the last leg of his TN tour. “There was a journalist who knew about an airstrike in Balakot. Three days before the air force bombed Pakistan, an Indian journalist was told this was going to happen by risking the lives of the air force pilots,” he said.