Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chennai.
*Update at 1.07pm: Women walks with her child on a deserted road at Kilapuk in Chennai
*The number of patients going to hospitals with heart attacks has come down across the country after the lockdown triggered by Covid-19.
*Gone are the days when consumers can spend time leisurely in supermarkets, dawdling at shelves to read about products before buying them. With social distancing being the norm, supermarket chains in the city have limited the number of people who are allowed to enter the stores at a given time.
*While voluntary maternal health check-ups by pregnant women at hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) have declined because of the lockdown and Covid-19 scare, there is no laxity in providing maternal healthcare for urgent cases, said doctors and health officials.
*The state government has sanctioned Rs 75.27 crore, from state disaster relief fund, for the state police department towards food allowance for 91,244 police personnel, who are maintaining round the clock vigil and vehicle checks along inter-state borders from March 24.
*Doctors working for Greater Chennai Corporation and volunteers at Loyola College are offering tele-counselling for home quarantined people in the city.
*With the number of Covid-19 cases going up with every passing day, the Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs 22.57 crore to establish more quarantine facilities in the state.
*Travel restrictions due to the lockdown have forced hospitals to postpone blood stem cell and bone marrow transplantations for patients with cancer and blood disorders.
*Looks like hundreds stuck in Chennai will be heading home once the lockdown ends on April 15, as tickets on trains to southern towns and cities in the neighbouring states are sold out already.
*The streets may be deserted but the terraces of apartment buildings are now filled with people who surface for a breath of fresh air in the evenings, after being cooped up all day at home. And for couples with young children, it is playtime as well.
*Update at 1.07pm: Women walks with her child on a deserted road at Kilapuk in Chennai
*The number of patients going to hospitals with heart attacks has come down across the country after the lockdown triggered by Covid-19.
*Gone are the days when consumers can spend time leisurely in supermarkets, dawdling at shelves to read about products before buying them. With social distancing being the norm, supermarket chains in the city have limited the number of people who are allowed to enter the stores at a given time.
*While voluntary maternal health check-ups by pregnant women at hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) have declined because of the lockdown and Covid-19 scare, there is no laxity in providing maternal healthcare for urgent cases, said doctors and health officials.
*The state government has sanctioned Rs 75.27 crore, from state disaster relief fund, for the state police department towards food allowance for 91,244 police personnel, who are maintaining round the clock vigil and vehicle checks along inter-state borders from March 24.
*Doctors working for Greater Chennai Corporation and volunteers at Loyola College are offering tele-counselling for home quarantined people in the city.
*With the number of Covid-19 cases going up with every passing day, the Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs 22.57 crore to establish more quarantine facilities in the state.
*Travel restrictions due to the lockdown have forced hospitals to postpone blood stem cell and bone marrow transplantations for patients with cancer and blood disorders.
*Looks like hundreds stuck in Chennai will be heading home once the lockdown ends on April 15, as tickets on trains to southern towns and cities in the neighbouring states are sold out already.
*The streets may be deserted but the terraces of apartment buildings are now filled with people who surface for a breath of fresh air in the evenings, after being cooped up all day at home. And for couples with young children, it is playtime as well.
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