‘Make sure lockdown rules are fully followed’

‘Make sure lockdown rules are fully followed’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

24.05.2021

As Tamil Nadu geared up for a weeklong intense lockdown, chief minister M K Stalin held a virtual meeting with district collectors on Sunday and asked them to achieve the lockdown’s objective of controlling the Covid-19 spread in their respective districts.

Stalin told the collectors to ensure adequate supply of essentials like vegetables, fruits, milk, drinking water to all and healthy food for Covid patients undergoing treatment in hospitals during the lockdown. “Lockdown rules should be fully followed, but at the same time make sure transportation of agriculture products are not affected,” he told the collectors. Keep a check on the availability of oxygen and life-saving drugs in hospitals and make sure that they are optimally used, he told them urging to spread awareness on Covid prevention and ensure the Covid chain is broken. “Unless the chain is broken, Covid cannot be controlled. This lockdown is aimed at breaking the chain. Explain this to people, that the lockdown was only for a safer society,’’ he urged them.

Work with the goal of bringing down Covid in your respective districts, he told them.

“Tamil Nadu is facing twin challenges of financial crunch and health crisis at the same time. Hence it is imperative to put an end to Covid as early as possible,’’ he said.

Stalin asked the collectors to adopt a multi-pronged approach to make the lockdown yield the desired results. They should take on board local administration and agriculture department to ensure vegetables and fruits was available to every household.