Updated on: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The Tamil Nadu Govt. on Sunday directed closure of all KG and primary schools until March, 31 2020 because it stepped up preventive measures towards coronavirus.
TN Chief Minister K.Palaniswami also issued order for closure of cinema halls and malls in which people collect in big numbers till the month end in the taluks in 16 districts bordering neighbouring Kerala and Karnataka, in which the variety of COVID-19 instances is on the rise, an official launch said.
In a chain of measures, he also ordered released Rs. 60 crore from the State Disaster relief fund to spruce up the preventive mechanism for holding the unfold of the virus, which, however, has infected most effective one inpidual within the kingdom so far.