Swab sample collection increased in Salem
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Swab being collected at one of the centres in Salem on Friday. | Photo Credit: LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E
The district administration and the health department have increased number of swab samples being collected here on a day and have deployed mobile teams for swab collection in rural areas.
According to officials, on Thursday alone, 6,783 swab samples were collected for tests at over 40 fever camps and 513 COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the district on Friday.
According to health officials, testing has been increased from 5,000 per day to close to 7,000 to identify more number of cases and ensure early treatment.
They will be diverted to government medical colleges to attend to COVID-19 patients
Medical officers from Amma Mini-Clinics will be diverted to government medical colleges to attend to COVID-19 patients.
The decision follows a surge in infections in the State in the second wave of COVID-19.
The State launched 2,000 Amma Mini-Clinics in January and 1,645 doctors were recruited to run them.
The Deputy Directors of Health Services, under whose purview the mini-clinics fall, have been instructed to divert medical officers, on a need basis, as per requests from the Deans of the medical colleges or Joint Directors of Health Services to institutions that come under the Directorate of Medical Services.
Over half of Madurai’s COVID-19 cases are secondary contacts, say officials
More than half the people testing positive for coronavirus in the city limits are the secondary contacts of Covid-19 patients, say health officials.
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A health worker takes sample from a man for COVID-19 test, as coronavirus cases surge across the country. (Photo | PTI)
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MADURAI: More than half the people testing positive for coronavirus in the city limits are the secondary contacts of Covid-19 patients, say health officials.
As per Thursday’s report, a total of 16 streets in around 20 wards of Madurai Corporation have been demarcated as containment zones.
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‘State government’s inefficiency has touched a new low’
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DMK president M.K Stalin campaigning at N. Vairavanpatti in Sivaganga district on Monday. | Photo Credit:
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‘State government’s inefficiency has touched a new low’
Law and order situation in Tamil Nadu had deteriorated that every day, murders, robberies and waylaying crimes happened, said DMK president M.K. Stalin here on Monday.
Speaking at the ‘Stalin Ungal Thoguthiyil’ at Tirupattur near here, he said the State government’s inefficiency had touched a new low, that womenfolk were unsafe and insecure. The Edappadi K Palaniswami’s government had come in for severe criticism from within their own partymen is a proof that he was counting his days in the seat of power.