<span style="font-size: 13.3333px; color: #222222;">I</span><span style="color: #222222;">n Tamil Nadu, five hundred doctors and a thousand nurses have been newly recruited in the wake of the looming novel Coronavirus threat. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">One thousand five hundred and eight new lab technicians have also been hired through the state Medical Recruitment Board. The state health minister Dr C Vijayabhaskar has said in a tweet they would be allowed to serve in their native districts for the time being as travel restrictions are currently in force. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the government has decided to increase the fleet of ambulances by inducting 200 more vehicles. The capacity in the state's first exclusive hospital for Covid-19 treatment in Chennai has been scaled up from 350 beds to 500 beds.</span>