The Chhattisgarh Government has given instruction to ensure immediate testing of COVID-19 suspected patients coming to private clinics, nursing homes and hospitals for treatment. <br />''<br />''The Health Secretary Niharika Barik Singh has written a letter to the Chairman of Indian Medical Association of Chhattisgarh Unit asking them to ensure immediate testing of COVID-19 suspected patients undergoing treatment in private hospitals, so as to identify the Corona positive patients.<br />''<br />''In case they are found COVID-19 positive, they should be referred to COVID Hospital. Instructions have been issued that if any patient in hospital is tested positive for COVID-19, then the hospital should be disinfected as per the guidelines of Central government, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and State Government and be reopened after 24 hours.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Chhattisgarh government has classified one hundred and fourteen development blocks in the state as the Red zones and six blocks as orange zones to contain the spread of coronavirus. <br />