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Are you living in Chennai? Here are the latest guidelines that you should know if you test COVID-19 positive!

By alagu, 23 April, 2021
COVID-19, Chennai, Tamilnadu

As Chennai is preparing to brace up for the peak of COVID-19 cases amid the second wave of the pandemic, the Greater Chennai Corporation has on Friday unveiled the new set of guidelines in addressing the dearth of hospital beds and managing the traffic of the hospitalization of the virus-hit patients in the city. The development has come when the state has been recording the exponential rise of the cases that had warranted the state government to impose a fresh set of restrictions. 

The city's civic body has changed its strategies in responding to the crisis. Chennai City Corporation Commissioner G Prakash has on Friday said that strategies are aimed at patient management and bringing down the fatality rate in the city in the coming days. According to reports, the civic body has restricted the hospital admissions only for the virus-hit patients who have severe symptoms while the asymptomatic people can observe home quarantine. 

Prakash said that the civic body wants to ensure that 50% of the cases going to the hospitals can be stopped in the coming days and this can only be done through installing the screening centers across the city. The strategies restrict the asymptomatic people who had tested positive for the COVID-19 viral infection from getting admitted to the hospital, rather they can or would be accompanied to the screening centers. 

What one has to do if no symptoms and tested positive for the viral infection? According to reports, if you don't have any symptoms such as loss of taste, smell, headache, skin peeling, cold, fever, cough, diarrhea, and nausea and contracted the viral infection, you don't have to go to the hospital. In the new strategies of the civic body, such person can contact the corporation helpline and the corporation staff will take the patient to the screening center. 

If you develop mild symptoms such as fever, cough, and headache, and test positive for the viral infection, you have to isolate at home. Corporation's sanitary inspector will contact you and take you to the screening center. The doctors will evaluate you and provide medicines. The doctors will also check the blood test, chest x-ray, blood pressure, pulse, and your oxygen level and the doctors will give further advice based on the test reports. 

If the doctor suggests that you should be under evaluation, you will be taken to a COVID care center where healthy food will be provided to you and you would also be taught yoga. On the other hand, the corporation recommends mandatory hospitalization for patients who had developed severe symptoms. If you have severe symptoms and tested positive for the COVID-19 viral infection, you have to call the ambulance or reach out to the COVID-19 helpline and the corporation vehicle will take you to a screening center to ascertain the symptoms. If the patients are confirmed to have severe symptoms, they would be taken to the hospital for further treatments. 

Prakash said that Chennai is yet to see the peak. He added that the experts have said that the peak will come by mid-May. Chennai has been reporting over 4,000 cases each day and the experts had predicted that the city would report 20,000 cases on May 15. On Friday, Tamil Nadu has reported over 13,000 fresh cases for the first time since the outbreak began, which in a way had become the highest single-day rise recorded by the state. 

According to the state health department, Tamil Nadu has reported 13,776 fresh cases, 8,078 discharges, and 78 deaths on Friday. Overall, the state has recorded 10,51,487 cases so far as of Friday of which 95,048 are active, 9,43,044 have been discharged, and 13,395 had succumbed to the viral infection. 

 

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