Chennai: The Tamilnadu government has informed the Madras High Court that treatment of Covid-19 in private hospitals is being covered under the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS).
The scheme covers 1.58 crore families earning below Rs 72,000 per annum. Meanwhile, following incidents of quarantined people and even Covid-19 confirmed patients giving a slip, the Tamilnadu government has decided to take the tech route to address the issue.
The government will geofence home isolated patients and quarantined contacts to ensure isolation norms are followed. Strict action will be taken against the violators.
Tamilnadu Chief Secretary K Shanmugam has directed the administrators of Chennai and neighbouring districts to fortify the Greater Chennai Police limits with multi-layer checking during a 12-day intense lockdown between 19 and 30 June.
“The main objective of this lockdown is to restrict the movement of people within the area and to outside to reduce the disease spread,” the top bureaucrat said in the letter.