<span style="color: #222222;">The Tamil Nadu Health Department has instructed all district administrations in the state to focus more on tracing and testing of all those coming in contact with the Covid-positive patients. As the number of daily infections is showing an upward trend, the state health secretary Dr P. Senthilkumar wrote a letter to the collectors yesterday.<br />''<br />'' In the letter he urged to ensure the follow up of the health conditions of those who are under home isolation. The Health Secretary said, in every district headquarters hospitals, fifty to hundred beds are being kept exclusively for Covid patients. He has asked those patients who lack the facility for home isolation to come and get themselves admitted in Covid care centres.<br />''<br />''The Secretary has urged officials to try to motivate people who have not yet completed minimum two doses of Covid vaccines to take the jabs without fail. Government hospitals have been asked to constantly monitor the stock of triple layer masks, PPE kits and medicines.</span><br />