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Syndromic approach for COVID-19 management in Tamil Nadu
The Hindu
Under this, active case search would be taken up through house-to-house visits and screening/triaging would be taken up at Interim COVID-19 Care Centres (ICCC).
Given the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases and sample load, the State will adapt a syndromic approach to COVID-19. Under this, active case search would be taken up through house-to-house visits and screening/triaging would be taken up at Interim COVID-19 Care Centres (ICCC). All persons with suspected symptoms approaching screening centres/ICCC may not be subjected to RT-PCR testing as all syndromic cases are considered as COVID-19 unless otherwise provided. In a circular issued on May 13, the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine said that the positivity rate for the past one week was 15.9, the highest so far. The average death for the past 10 days was 150.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.