Coronavirus research laboratory centres have been set up at 2 places in the state of Tamil Nadu and at 1 place in Puducherry.
In Tamil Nadu, COVID-19 test centres have bee set up at King’s Institute (King’s Preventive Treatment and Research Company) and at Theni Government Medical College.
The central government has announced that a COVID-19 test centre will be set up in the Puducherry JIPMER Hospital.
Various war-footing activities have been initiated to prevent the spreading of coronavirus which has spread fast globally. 52 testing facilities have been set up in India.
5 centre has been set up in Karnataka and 3 centres each have been set up in Kerala and Andhra and 1 centre has been set up in Telangana state.