Day: March 22, 2020

Tourists staying in lodges and resorts in the Queen of Hill stations to vacate the premises within 24 hours as a sequel to coronavirus prevention in the district. Nilgiris District Collector Innocent Divya stated in a press release that the tourists, who have come from other states and other countries to vacant the rooms and leave the hills. Meanwhile, she directed lockdown of tourist spots including botanical gardens and sight seeing places following a direction from Tamil Nadu chief minister to shut all schools, college, malls, theatres, recreation centres, tourist…

District Collector K Rajamani inaugurated molecular lab for testing Coronavirus at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH). It may be noted that the blood samples collected from suspected persons for Coronavirus were sent to Chennai. Now that a lab has been opened at CMCH wherein the blood samples will be tested here and follow up will be initiated based on the reports. CMCH dean Dr Asokan was also present at the event. Meanwhile, monitoring centre has been opened near Coimbatore airport at Teja Shakthi college campus where a 50 bed facility…

A Big Salute To Coronavirus Fighters By SHEFA RAFI With the most dreaded disease Coronavirus posing a serious threat to the life of people across the globe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the nation on radio and television about the most dangerous situation the country is facing appealed to citizens to lend a helping hand to the government in fighting the pandemic and urged them to observe March 22 (Sunday) as Janta Curfew (People’s Curfew) from 7am to 9pm. He appealed to citizens not to step out of their…