With the view of strengthening the mechanisms and efforts to contain and combat the Coronavirus and to have the people across the state stay informed and updated over the epidemic, the Tamil Nadu Health Department has introduced a web portal designed to bring preventive measures, precautions, and advisories under one roof and to provide all the information to the people related to the virus.

Through the web portal (http://stopcoronatn.in), the people who have travel history and who have developed the symptoms positive to the virus can now report directly to the authorities by updating their details in the portal and once they disclosed the details and the condition, a 24x7 control room, that has been installed to combat the spread of the virus, would reach them.

According to the reports, the site has been designed and developed by the National Health Mission- Tamil Nadu and it has been operated by the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, which functions under the state health and family welfare department. The portal has been equipped with the latest bulletins released by the government over the virus, helpline numbers, health advisories, and whom to be reached for clarifications.

Adding to that, the web portal also highlights the links of the Tamil Nadu Health Department, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National Center for Disease Control, Indian Council of Medical Research, and World Health Organization to understand the latest developments about the global pandemic across and beyond borders. According to the website, Tamil Nadu has screened 1,89,750 people so far at the Chennai, Trichy, Coimbatore, and Madurai airports and 2984 passengers are under home quarantine currently for 28 days and 32 are under hospital isolation.

On Wednesday, the state of Tamil Nadu has recorded with the second positive case for the global pandemic after a 20-year-old teenager who hailed from Delhi had tested positive for the virus. He has currently been quarantined and under observation at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in Chennai. Recently, the state government has put the state under severe lockdown to contain the spread. The schools, colleges, bars, malls, theaters, parks, tourist spots, and private establishments have been closed and will remain closed till March 31st to avoid mass gatherings of the people to lower the risk of the spread.