After a steep rise through the first two weeks of april, the number of new COVID-19 cases in tamilnadu has been coming down for the past three days. Highlighting this during his recent press meet on thursday, tamilnadu chief minister edappadi k palaniswami said that this fall in numbers was promising. chief minister shared that the state has recorded 25 new COVID-19 cases on thursday, making the new total 1267, and said, “Slowly it will start reducing. We have done extensive contact tracing and test everyone. In the next two to three days it will become zero.”
As of april 16, the state has recorded 15 deaths and 180 recoveries, 62 moving out from hospitals just on Thursday. Expressing his hope for containing the disease in the state, the chief minister later on added, “We will turn all positive cases into negative. The 180 (number of recoveries) will only keep increasing.Chief minister shared data regarding the available number of testing kits in the state.
He stated “1,97,000 PCR kits are available with us. We have sufficient testing and protective kits. Should the number of cases increase in the state like it has in countries like the USA, italy and spain, we have placed orders for more PPE kits, ventilators, masks and the likes. tamilnadu is the only state in the country that has a strong precautionary plan in place". Talking about the measures taken to help farmers and migrant workers in the state, cm also shared updates on what’s being done for them. In view of ramzan festival that will begin on april 23, cm shared that he will be holding talks with religious leaders on how to observe the festival month, especially the cooking and sharing of the nombu kanji (a rice gruel) that’s an integral part of the ramzan month.
