With the view of overseeing the coordination and relief works, managing the containment zones and quarantine mechanisms effectively to subdue the further spread of COVID-19 in the Greater Chennai Corporation, the Tamil Nadu government has, on Friday, nominated five cabinet ministers of the state and they will be deployed across the zones in Chennai to monitor the containment works and the works of field support team.
According to the abstract issued by the Chief Secretary of the Tamil Nadu government, ministers D Jayakumar, K.P. Anbalagan, R Kamaraj, R.B. Udhayakumar, and M.R.Vijayabhaskar have been nominated by the government to oversee the coordination and relief works of containing the pandemic in Chennai, which is the active and biggest hotspot in Tamil Nadu by reporting two-thirds of the total number of affected cases in the state.
சென்னையில் கொரானா பரவலை தடுக்க 5 அமைச்சர்கள் கொண்ட குழு - முதல்வர் அறிவிப்பு
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The Chief Secretary stated that Jayakumar will be taking care of Zones 3,4,5 while K.P.Anbalagan has been designated to oversee the relief works in zones 13, 14, and 15. Minister Kamaraj will be responsible for zones 8, 9, and 10 and Udhayakumar will be for zones 1, 2, and 6. Minister M.R. Vijayabhaskar will be taking care of the rest three zones of 7, 11, and 12.
Chennai currently has 15 active zones with more cases in Royapuram ( Zone 5 -3388 cases) followed by Tondiarpet (Zone 4 - 2261 cases), and Teynampet (Zone 9 - 2136) according to the Greater Chennai Corporation as of Friday morning. The deployment of five ministers to the city has come when the city has reported the biggest spikes for the past two days.
With soaring high cases, the city has become a huge challenge to the government's mechanisms and containment strategies in containing the spread. The state government has already named Dr. Radhakrishnan IAS as the special nodal officer for Chennai to contain the spread and the higher officials of the state government and Greater Chennai Corporation have been rolling out efforts of contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine management to mitigate the spread.
On Thursday, the city has reported 1,072 cases -the biggest spike since the outbreak and the city's tally stands at 18,693 of which 9,066 are active cases, 9,459 have been discharged, and 167 had died due to the virus so far as of Thursday.
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