Chennai: Intensifying its fight against Covid-19 pandemic, the Tamilnadu government will release a comprehensive testing policy today.
According to sources, a team led by Health Secretary Beela Rajesh prepared the policy with inputs from Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and it will be released today with the approval of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
On Monday, reacting to a tweet by DMK president and Leader of Opposition M K Stalin, Vijayabaskar said, “We have high tests and recovery rate but low mortality. Let’s not hurt the sentiments of people who work hard.”
“Sometimes, we do more than what ICMR recommends,” he said and added: “We draw samples from all passengers coming by road at the district check posts. Samples are drawn for air and rail passengers too.”
He also said, “Our State has done the largest number of tests. We are following the ICMR protocol. We don’t plan the number of tests. It depends on the number of people who come into the city by road, flights or trains or the number of home contacts of a person who tested positive.”