எனது தொடர்ச்சியான அழுத்தத்திற்கு பின் #COVID19-ஆல் ஜூன் 10 வரை ‘கணக்கில் வராமல்’ இறந்தவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 444 என்று @CMOTamilNadu ஒத்துக்...

DMK president M.K. Stalin expressed profound shock after the Tamil Nadu government officially admitted that 444 coronavirus deaths in Chennai up to June 10 had gone uncounted in state health bulletins. Stalin noted that this startling admission came only after continuous, rigorous scrutiny and persistent public questioning by the opposition, which repeatedly drew attention to discrepancies between municipal burial registers and health department announcements.

Stalin pointed out that official statistics form the bedrock of epidemic modeling, contact tracing protocols, and healthcare capacity planning. When hundreds of deaths in the capital city are excluded from the ledger, entire infection containment strategies are compromised. He criticized the state health administration for attempting to downplay the crisis instead of addressing critical shortages of hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, and life-saving antiviral medications across medical facilities in Chennai.

Stalin affirmed that the opposition would continue to demand complete transparency on pandemic data, holding the executive accountable for every administrative lapse. He called upon the government to immediately reconcile death registries across all local bodies and provide compassionate ex gratia assistance to families affected by the epidemic.