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Minister says strong winds have been making firefighting difficult, and an estimated 2400 hectares have been burned

Test positivity rate for the last one week is the highest in the region, at 28.6 %, while it was 17.67% in the rest of the State

With an exponential rise in infections, Chennai quickly became a COVID-19 hotspot during the second wave. Serena Josephine M. reports on how the situation was stabilised before it could spiral out of control

How the tech-driven war room in Tamil Nadu is leading the Covid-19 battle Equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and co-ordination methods, the high-tech war room in Chennai intends to turn the tide of Covid-19 battle. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- Staff hard at work at the war room at DMS campus in Teynampet. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS) Express News Service CHENNAI: Inside a hall on the seventh floor of a Chennai high-rise, a large television screen shows the live feed of hundreds of Covid-19 ambulances plying across Tamil Nadu on a satellite map. Two healthcare professionals, on h...

22 May 2021 / 22:46 H. - Bernama PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry (MOH) needs a period of two weeks to make the necessary preparation to contain the Covid-19 transmission in the country. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said among the preparations was to stock up on equipment and medicine as well as reviewing the layouts to further increase the wards and intensive care units (ICU) capacity for Covid-19 patients. Therefore, he appealed to all Malaysians to assist the ministry by imposing self and family restriction for two weeks in order to break the infection chain and...