200 Secretariat Employees In TN Tested COVID Positive

A 56-year-old staffer in the office of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami died of COVID-19 on Tuesday night in Chennai. The deceased staff was working in the cadre as 'senior private secretary' and was hospitalized for over a week now.

He was first admitted to the Government Multi-Super-Specialty Hospital at Omandurar estate and later shifted to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH). From there he was shifted to a private hospital and then again RGGGH, where he breathed last on Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, reports state around 200 employees including many IAS officers and officers at different ranks have contracted this infection at the secretariat and are under treatment.

The TNSA had been demanding for the past 10 days for the reduction of staff strength from 50 to 33 per cent.

From June 19 however, all government offices will function only with 33 percent employees and employees from containment zones need not come to the office.