Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has prolonged assist to the people of Tamil Nadu within the struggle towards the surging Covid-19 second wave.
Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd (CSKCL) has organized for the supply of 450 Oxygen concentrators. CSKCL Director R Srinivasan handed over the oxygen concentrators to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin, on Saturday within the presence of Rupa Gurunath, President, Tamil Nadu Cricket Association.
Bhoomika Trust, an NGO concerned in Covid aid operations, helped CSKCL in arranging for the availability of the oxygen concentrators and also will coordinate the distribution. The first consignment of oxygen concentrators has arrived and the remaining is predicted to achieve early subsequent week.
“The people of Chennai and Tamil Nadu form the very heartbeat of the Super Kings and we want them to know that we are all together in this fight against the pandemic,” CSK CEO KS Viswanathan mentioned in an official assertion.
CSKCL is delivering the oxygen concentrators for the profit of Covid sufferers being handled in Government hospitals and the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)-run Covid care centres.
An oxygen concentrator is an alternative choice to Liquid Medical Oxygen and is utilized by each dwelling remoted sufferers and reasonable sufferers in hospitals.
CSK has been spreading consciousness via the “Mask Podu” (Wear Mask) marketing campaign and common distribution of related info via their social media platforms.
Since April, CSK gamers have been highlighting the significance of Covid safety measures and urging the general public to get vaccinated on the earliest. These creatives are being displayed on 90 Variable Message Display methods of the GCC throughout the town.
Amid rising COVID-19 instances, the Tamil Nadu authorities on Saturday introduced a ‘full lockdown’ for two weeks from May 10 to manage the unfold of the illness.
According to an announcement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office on Saturday, the lockdown will come into impact at 4 am on May 10 and shall be in pressure until 4 am on May 24.
India reported 4,01,078 recent COVID-19 instances within the final 24 hours, in response to the union well being ministry. With this, the nation has recorded over 4 lakh every day instances for the third consecutive day.