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Total Covid-19 cases cross 90 thousand mark in Tamil Nadu

<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, the total Covid-19 cases crossed the ninety-thousand mark today with 3943 people testing positive for the infection.<br />''<br />''The state higher education minister KP Anbalagan is one of those who have tested positive today. He is admitted to a hospital in Chennai.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Chennai Corporation is getting a tremendous response to its 24-hour call centre on Covid-19.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, the Chennai Corporation is running a centralized Covid-19 call centre at its headquarters in Ripon Building, functioning 24-by-7 for the past three months.<br />''<br />''15 other similar centres are also functioning at as many of its zonal offices.<br />''<br />''They are being managed by doctors, psychologists, trained counsellors and representatives from geriatric care centres.<br />''<br />''Officials say they have received about 2.80 lakh calls from different corners of the city since the inception.<br />''<br />''The calls range from seeking help in testing and hospitalization to seeking counselling to ward off excessive fear psychosis.<br />''<br />''The counsellors say some of the Covid-19 positive patients and their family members under home isolation narrate the hostile treatment they face from the neighbours.<br />''<br />''In such situations, effective interventions are being made to ensure their demands are met, grievances addressed and are all happy. </span><br />

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