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Tamil Nadu CM’s staff member dies of COVID-19

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A 56-year-old staffer at the office of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami died of coronavirus on June 16 in Chennai, officials said.

The deceased staff was working in the cadre as ‘senior private secretary’ and was hospitalised for over a week now.

He was first admitted to the Government Multi-Super-Speciality 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 June 16.

Meanwhile, sources said 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 per cent employees and employees from containment zones need not come to the office.

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