 The current population of the state is about 8.5 crores. So given this population, this number is expected one. And also the number of serious cases, since the testing is going on, the contacts and the other people also being captured, the pregnant women are tested, the people who are coming for elective surgeries, care are also being tested and the frontline workers are tested. So the positivity rate, although the many people, a large majority of them are now handled at home care and also COVID care center. So the testing is capturing the cases. If this testing is not done at this scale, only the cases which are coming to the hospital, that is the sick cases are those cases who are developing symptoms alone will be captured. So we need not worry about this number, but where we need to worry about is the proportion of the vulnerables being infected. If the vulnerables are being infected, it will lead to increase in death. So that is what is happening now. Since the epidemics are almost stabilized and we are going into the last phase of declining phase, so the proportion of the vulnerables are getting infected. So it is very, very important that 60 plus people, those who are having diabetes, hypertension and other comorbid conditions like cancer, organ transplantation, then bronchial asthma kind of people and kidney disease, they need to be very, very careful. They should not move. There must be selective restriction of movement for the 60 plus and the vulnerable population. Those who are having immune deficiency conditions. And again, one more issue, misconception, even sometimes the people, they think that if I develop breathlessness, only then if I report to an hospital for treatment, it is enough. No, that is a situation which leads to loss of life. Till the oxygen level dangerously falls to 80 or 75 or 70, the breathlessness never occurs. So it goes silently. That is why we call it as silent hypoxia or asymptomatic hypoxia. So it is necessary that every fever case, that is every vulnerable person or every positive case or even the someone who is tested negative, sometimes if the test may be negative, he may be harboring the virus. Because all true, all positives are true positives. All negatives are not true negatives. So meticulous monitoring of the oxygen level, weight use of this finger pulse oximeter will help in saving the life. So the basic fact is very simple. If I did the hypoxia at 95 or 94 or 93 and the doctor start oxygen at 90 or 92 or 93, maintaining is easy. But if the oxygen dangerously reduces to less than 80 percent and then I am looking for oxygen, then it is very difficult to bring up the oxygen. It is a matter of 10 days. So once 10 days the body is able to manage, then the virus clears from the body. During these 10 days, early treatment, early recognition of hypoxia, early oxygen and other medicines, then that will save our life. That is very important. The threat is the spread of infection diseases very, very real and it is straight on our face. That means the disease conditionary, the field level operation, operation need to be strengthened across the country. The policy of the government of India to have one is to one, one female worker, she will look after the maternal and child health, family welfare and immunization activities and one male health worker. So who will look after the control of the infection disease, the prevention, the identity disease surveillance case, referral of the case and maybe the third A in our village healthness may be required for non-communicative diseases. The non-communicative diseases means the diabetes, hypertension and also the cancer. Now if you look at the people who are having comorbid conditions are more vulnerable to increase the disease. So the strengthening the health center at these three people, one village healthness for maternal, child health, immunization and family planning, one male worker exclusive for every health center which is covering a population of 5000. In urban areas it covers a population of 10,000. Then one male health worker and one another female health worker for taking care of the non-communicative diseases. So unless this is being strengthened, see please imagine the economic losses, the disease caused them. So imagine the human suffering, the disease caused them. Imagine the loss of life, the anxiety among the people. There are so many issues you know that the problems have occurred across the world. So the money which we need to invest, so the structure we need to create, the structure we have already created during the malaria days. Now the tuberculosis is again a serious problem. Leprosy, although we have eliminated, still cases continue to occur. So under these situations it is very very necessary to build an infrastructure and machinery at the field level and particularly the laboratory. If you look at the laboratory, Tamil Nadu is having a large number of laboratories which can test the where the 40 BCR laboratory is there in more than 120 laboratories are there and ICMR collaboration also the laboratories are there. But that is not the case everywhere. The diagnostic facilities, disease control, human resources at the health, substance level need to be strengthened across the state. It is not only the case for Tamil Nadu, it is the case for the, it is a policy, change the policy. We need to bring back the disease control machinery in its original form that is very much essential to save the public health of the country. In Chennai, we see the cases were dropped significantly, very significantly. Now in Chennai the cases are stagnating for two-three reasons because Chennai is a large area and the surrounding district, Chengalpur, Kanjipuram, Thiruvallur, they are also having a large population. Almost the population density also is very high when compared to the other parts of the state. So this will stagnate for some more time in Chennai, particularly the people who left during the lockdown period subsequently and most of the people are now returning back to work. So all these things contribute that the cases are stabilized, that maybe this curve is flattened and similarly when we look at the whole picture across the world, the epidemic, the pandemic is in different stages in different countries. Even in India, the pandemic is in different stages in different states or even in Tamil Nadu, Mumbai and surrounding areas, Pune that situation is different and the rest of the state the cases are now occurring. In the same way Chennai major corporation areas, the cases are declining and now the other corporations say for example in Coimbatore, E-Road, the such areas, the crowded areas where the population density is very high and it is a travel center and also there are large number of hospitals. The flu-like symptom has a direct relationship with the number of hospitals in a given place because people who have developed this influence are like illness, they seek care in the cities. So the cities are naturally, there is a probability that someone may get infected. That is why we are asking the doctors and the hospital authorities, particularly the private sector, to keep a vigil on visitors. There are large number of visitors who are coming for a single patient, even for a mother comes for a delivery. There are morning, one relative afternoon, one relative night, another relative people like this. So now they need to be restricted. The hospital disinfection, the infection control in the hospitals are very important and the 6000 cases if you look at, they are not coming from the same place every day. It keeps changing. Some places for example, Madurai, at one point of time there are large number of cases in Madurai. So that had a decline. E-Road, there were no cases. Now E-Road, the cases are coming. Similarly, Salem. So this way, so the cases in one place it is getting control. The other place it is coming. So it will take some more time to get it stabilized and the actual reduction to start. Now it is having stabilized at this level itself is a, I think it is an, it is not exploding like a 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 like that. So it is a good sign that now that there is a stalemate, so once it is, the stalemates is broken, I think there will be, the declining will start. We should look at the solution. A lockdown was done initially. The purpose of the lockdown is three. One is to bring an awareness, sudden one stroke awareness for the whole country. So why lockdown? Why lockdown? So people start thinking about, they understand the seriousness of lockdown. So that means something is serious. So that purpose served them. And the second purpose is preparing because across the world everybody is affected. So now all hospitals need to be prepared. So supplies, doctors, nurses, so many things arrangement have to be done. And the third objective is the hospital, one is the infrastructure and another is the supplies. So these are the three objectives. These three objectives are now met. So now it is time that the disease has to be managed from the medical perspective, from the public health perspective, not from the lockdown perspective. Lockdown, and also Sunday lockdown may be useful. Sunday one day weekly once it may be useful. And lockdown alone as such without attending to social distancing, mask, face mask, hand washing, then ventilation, it will not be able to control the infection. We have to change the lifestyle, building style, movement style, function, my marriage, whatever it may be, we need to follow certain protocols.