NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, MARCH 19
All necessary preventive measures are to be taken against the coronavirus in 200 churches and 150 educational institutions, hospitals and hostels governing under the CSI Coimbatore diocese.
Talking to reporters, Bishop Timothy Ravinder said the diocese consists of eight revenue districts of Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Salem, Nilgiris, Namakkal, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri.
Circulars have been sent to all the churches and institutions on awareness and immediate preventive measures about the coronavirus after receiving guidelines from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K Palaniswami on March 16, he said.
Meanwhile, a Krishna temple in Kethi in Nilgiris district saw a special pooja by placing 108 types of herbs to save the people from the coronavirus.
