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The State has ordered private hospitals with 100 or more beds to reserve 25 per cent for COVID-19 isolation facility.A Health Department official said, “A communication has been sent to all private hospitals with 100 beds and above to keep the beds ready. From the government’s side, we are shifting other patients from Government IRT Perundurai Hospital, Erode, to different hospitals. The Indian Council for Medical Research has approved two private testing centres in Tamil Nadu. Department of  Clinical Virology, CMC Vellore and Department of Laboratory Services Apollo Hospitals Enterprises LTD, Chennai are the two centres approved. The State already has eight government testing centres.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced that it has set up India’s first COVID-19 dedicated hospital in Mumbai. This first-of-its-kind-in-India centre is fully funded by Reliance Foundation and includes a negative pressure room that helps in preventing cross contamination and helps control infection. All beds are equipped with the required infrastructure, biomedical equipment such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machines, and patient monitoring devices.

The Tamil Nadu government will take a decision on imposing stringent restrictive measures in Chennai, Kancheepuram and Erode districts, which figure among the 80 districts countrywidewhere the Centre has advised maintaining only “essential services” in view of the COVID-19 On Sunday, three more patients tested positive for COVID-19.

The State government has declared COVID-19 a notified disease under the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act, 1939. Another testing laboratory has been readied in the State – at Tirunelveli. With this, Tamil Nadu has a total of four testing facilities.