A day after implementing Sunday lockdown, the Kerala authorities Saturday imposed a nighttime curfew and stated it's going to come to impact from Monday. Issuing fresh order, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated the nighttime curfew will be imposed each day from 10 PM to 6 AM.
The chief minister on Saturday stated his state has examined 1,67,497 samples, and out of which 31,265 samples examined positive for COVID and 153 deaths suggested withinside the state. Because of the unexpected surge in COVID instances, the state authorities had on Friday imposed Sunday lockdown withinside the state.
Earlier, an exemption became given for the identical withinside the closing weeks. Notably, Kerala has been clocking more than 30,000 Covid-19 instances withinside the beyond few days with the Total Positivity Rate (TPR) has additionally crossed an alarming 19 per cent.
As the instances began out rising, the Opposition and public health professionals have attacked the state authorities’ alleged “carelessness” and “unwise” decisions for the spike.
On Thursday and additionally, on Friday, the Central authorities had written letters to the Kerala authorities, asking to incorporate the alarming graph of the virus withinside the southern state. The domestic secretary reviewed the COVID-19 scenario and the steps taken to incorporate the unfold of the virus withinside the southern state and gave some suggestions.
Kerala on Friday recorded 32,801 new Covid instances after 1,70,703 samples became examined, taking the take a look at positivity rate to 19.22 per cent.