Government of Tamil Nadu is taking precautions to prevent spreading of Coronavirus by closing schools for small children. The Tamil Nadu government has announced that pre-KG, LKG and UKG classes in all schools across the state will remain shut from 16th March 2020 to 31st March 2020.
Also schools are closed till Class 5 in some of the districts that are close to Kerala, Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Theni, Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Nilgiris. Kerala has reported the maximum no of Coronavirus case in India and Tamil Nadu has one confirmed case so far.