Following Kerala and Maharashtra record more than 100 cases of the coronavirus and a national lockdown in place, states, and union territories are ramping up their facilities for testing, isolation, and treatment to contain the outbreak.
All states, from Tamil Nadu to Jammu and Kashmir, they have increased isolation facilities, set up designated hospitals, fast-tracked appointment of new doctors, called in retired professionals and reached out to the private sector.
Tamil Nadu is readying a 350-bed isolation ward with over 20 critical care facilities and 700 toilets at the multi-super specialty government hospital on Mount Road in Chennai. City-based Apollo Hospitals, which has received approval for a testing lab, has offered to treat patients at its 100-bed facility.