NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, APR 28
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Wednesday reviewed the measures taken up by the government to tackle the second wave of coronavirus pandemic in a high level meeting at the Raj Bhavan.
Chief Secretary Rajeev Ranjan, Director General of Police, J K Tripathy, Health Secretary, J Radhakrishnan, Secretary, Public Department, P Senthil Kumar, and Secretary to the Governor, Anandrao V Patil participated, an official release from the Raj Bhavan said.
The government, meanwhile, named four trainee IAS officials to work at the COVID-19 Control Room here which monitors state-wide efforts aimed at tackling the pandemic.
Four trainee officials are posted at the control room to work on rotation basis (the currently named trainees would be working from April 29 to May 12) and they would be working with Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation authorities.
They shall be working on monitoring oxygen requirement and availability of essential medicine and beds in hospitals, a government release said.
TN logs highest Covid tally since start of pandemic
COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu breached the 16,000 mark on Wednesday, the highest since the start of the pandemic, taking the caseload to 11.30 lakh, while 98 fatalities pushed the toll 13,826.
The state had logged cases in excess of 15,000 over the last three days. It had crossed the 10,000 mark on April 18 this year.
The 16,665 cases on Wednesday took the cumulative tally to 11,30,167, a health department bulletin said. As many as 15,114 people were cured of the virus, taking the aggregate to 10,06,033, leaving 1,10,308 active cases. Chennai headed the districts with 4,764 new cases, followed by Chengalpattu (1,219), while 29 districts saw a sharp increase, with figures in triple digits.
Among the deceased, 14 had no comorbidities. As many as 33 people who tested positive today were returnees from various destinations, including one from Jammu and Kashmir, the bulletin said.
A total of 1,30,042 samples were tested on Wednesday, taking the cumulative number of specimens examined so far to 2,23,78,247.
