Chennai: The Tamilnadu government has allocated Rs 100 crore to take precaution measures to tackle the third wave of the pandemic, Chief Minister M K Stalin has said.
Rs 100 crore was sanctioned from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund (CMPRF) towards procuring liquid oxygen for treating Covid-19 patients in State-run hospitals and to take precautionary steps to face the possible third wave.
A total sum of Rs 353 crore has been received as of Tuesday in the CMPRF, following the appeal issued by the Chief Minister, an official release said.
Out of the Rs 353 crore, the government had spent Rs 164.50 crore to procure medical liquid oxygen, remdesivir and other lifesaving drugs and to ramp up the medical infrastructure to tackle the second wave of the pandemic, it added.
The Chief Minister had earlier sanctioned Rs 50 crore for procuring anti-viral drug Remdesivir and oxygen and a similar sum for purchasing RT-PCR test kits as the state was now conducting 1.6 lakh tests a day, it said.