Chennai: With the active cases in Tamil Nadu breaching 10,000-mark, the state Public Health department has directed all the colleges and schools to strictly adhere to Covid protocols.
As many as 1,285 fresh cases were registered on Wednesday prompting the health department to send an advisory to all the educational institutions.
Director of State Public health department Dr. T. S. Selvavinayagam told media that the educational institutions have to be strictly monitored and the department has sent circulars to all the educational institutions to ensure that students are strictly adhering to Covid protocols.
He said that across the globe people have to wear masks, keep safe distancing, and sanitise regularly to keep the disease at bay. This is in addition to the two doses of Covid vaccines to prevent getting infected.
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Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian while speaking to IANS explained: "The only method now is to adhere to Covid-19 protocol and we have been telling this regularly to the people of the state to wear masks, keep safe distancing and sanitise regularly. Everyone should also take the vaccines as the state health department has arranged the facility to take vaccines at the PHCs in all the nook and corners of the state."
On Wednesday, the number of active cases in the state crossed the 10,000-mark for the first time since February 23, when the third wave was declining. The weekly average in the state on June 1 was 80 while on June 29 the number of fresh cases per day touched 1285.
The state has also increased the number of RT-PCR tests and is presently doing 25,000 cases a day. In the first week of June, the number of RT-PCR tests was 14,000.