In view of the coronavirus pandemic, Tamil Nadu Government has decided to take strict against educational institutes if the SOPs and COVID-19 guidelines will not be followed.
State Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan responded that detailed guidelines and protocols have been issued by the government when the case count in IIT Madras rose to 183.
He further said that the coronavirus outbreak in the IIT-M was an isolated cluster and aggressive assessment would be done in hostels and places like canteens located inside the institutions including varsities.
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Tamil Nadu Records Spiking COVID-19 Cases; Health Dept Mandates Strict Norms
On December 15, Tamil Nadu reported 1,132 new COVID-19 cases, which summed up the tally to 8,01,161 cases and the death toll mounted to 11,919 cases adding on 10 more fatalities.
Chennai alone reported 359 cases out of the total 1,132 fresh infections, and however other cases were from other regions of Tamil Nadu.
The Health Department bulletin reported that out of 8 Lakh plus state cases, Chennai had solely covered the count of 2,20,560 cases; and out of the 11,919 deaths, 3,929 were from the state’s capital and it counts to the highest.
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The statistics report that with 1,210 patients getting discharged from various hospitals every day, the active cases dipped below the 10,000 marks i.e. 9,951 cases and 7,79,291 people have cured so far. All of the 10 death cases had comorbidities.
A total of 66,213 samples were tested via the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction mechanism and a total of 1,30,86,807 specimens have been examined under the RT-PCR in 232 labs in the state, the bulletin reported.
Officials who visited the affected students said that the ones from IIT-M tested positive, are all stable now and are being treated at the state-run King’s Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research.
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