{"id":483262,"date":"2022-04-08T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=483262"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:44:30","slug":"covid-19-tamil-nadu-advises-authorities-to-intensify-surveillance-at-international-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-tamil-nadu-advises-authorities-to-intensify-surveillance-at-international-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Tamil Nadu advises authorities to intensify surveillance at international airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining that there was no detection of \u2018XE\u2019, the new variant of Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu, the government has advised the airport authorities to intensify surveillance at international airports, a State Minister said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the increase in new Covid-19 cases in the state, the Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said the Health department has directed officials in districts to take up contact tracing even if one infection was detected in a region. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no detection of the new variant (XE) in Tamil Nadu. Though it was reported in Maharashtra on Wednesday about the detection of new variant, today the Union government has denied it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining that there was no detection of \u2018XE\u2019, the new variant of Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu, the government has advised the airport authorities to intensify surveillance at international airports, a State Minister said on Thursday. Following the increase in new Covid-19 cases in the state, the Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said the Health department has directed officials in districts to take up contact tracing even if one infection was detected in a region. \u201cThere is no detection of the new variant (XE) in Tamil Nadu. Though it was reported in Maharashtra on Wednesday about the detection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}