<span style="color: #222222;">Two of the Vande Bharat Mission special flights are scheduled to reach Chennai Airport today, one this afternoon and another in the mid-night. They are to arrive with a total of four hundred passengers from Dubai. A series of flights from several countries have been scheduled to reach the city till next Friday.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Madras High Court has directed the state government to reply before the 12th of this month to a petition seeking procurement of vegetables, fruits and other farm produces from farmers directly.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, the state health department has decided to appoint 2570 nurses on contract basis for a six month period. They will be employed in Covid-19 treatment facilities. Of them, 40 each will be deployed in Medical College Hospitals and District headquarters hospitals. Taluk headquarters hospitals will be recruited with ten to thirty nurses depending on the number of caseloads.<br />''<br />''Furthermore, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has directed all the industrial units to use machines to clean the industrial tanks for fear of accumulation of poisonous gas over the past many days of inactivity. The Board has also asked the industrial units to ensure the machinery, pipes and valves are safe before resumption of works after more than forty days of lockdown.</span><br />