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Tamil Nadu`s capital Chennai recorded 4,206 fresh cases and 30 deaths on Sunday, followed by Coimbatore 1038, Madurai 603, Salem 511 and Trichy 343 cases.
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Migrant labourers working in industrial units in Coimbatore and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu seem divided over the issue of returning to their hometowns.
Some workers still prefer to stay at their work amid the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Tiruppur has about 2.5 lakh migrant workers from West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.
However, a large section of them returned to their hometown after the outbreak of Covid in March last year but returned to their workspace after the situation improved slightly.
Migrant workers in Coimbatore are confused as to whether to go back to their hometowns or stay at workplaces.
Some prefer to stay in this place with their family, while others are in a hurry to return home.
Selvaraj Manikantan, a 26-year-old employee of a pump manufacturing unit in Coimbatore, told , “I am here with my wife and a small child.
If we travel now, we can get stuck.