Taking hard measures while ensuring basic essentials: TN's coronavirus plan

The state is following surveillance, containment, increasing testing facilities, and ensuring essentials at people's doorstep, among other strategies.

Kalu, along with others, finished his brief stretching exercise, and sat on one of the benches placed in rows on the cement ground. Their physical instructor came down from the podium and a white screen and projector were placed for the next routine activity of watching a movie. In the meanwhile, a few of his fellow villagers from Odisha started reciting poems in their language through a microphone.

His life has taken a different turn with industry came to a grinding halt with the pandemic-induced lockdown and he is left with no income to support even himself.

Some migrant workers were able