COVID-19 / With over 32,000 fresh Covid infections, Kerala Govt reinforces weekend lockdown

Zoom News : Aug 27, 2021, 08:45 PM

Kerala on Friday pronounced another huge surge of Covid-19 infections because the state recorded 32,801 new instances taking the take a look at positivity rate to 19.22 consistent with cent. This is the second time due to the fact May 20, the peak of the second wave, that the state recorded over 30,000 clean instances in 24 hours. Given the surge withinside the instances, the state authorities determined to bring back Sunday lockdown, which was carried out away withinside the closing weeks due to the Independence Day and Onam celebrations.


Kerala's Covid scenario has deteriorated with the state seeing an Onam spike. State health minister Veena George placed the blame on domestic isolation and currently stated that a majority of the people have become inflamed from their circle of relatives contributors as inflamed people aren't following containment regulations properly in home isolation.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan too brushed off the steady assault on Kerala's Covidcontrol as 'unwanted' and stated that those are planned tries to undermine people combat in opposition to the pandemic. 


"These movements have been to cause public sentiments in opposition to the authorities and therefore create a scenario wherein the combat in opposition to the virus infection was considered gently via way of means of the people," the leader minister wrote withinside today's edition of the party's mouthpiece.


"In Kerala, now no longer a single man or woman had died because of the lack of oxygen. No one has been denied get entry to health services or all and sundry confronted a scenario of now no longer getting a health facility mattress for the duration of emergencies," the CM wrote including that folks that are criticising Kerala's model aren't conscious that the second wave began out a bit past due withinside the state.


The Union domestic secretary chaired an assembly on Thursday with the kingdom authorities officers of Kerala and Maharashtra as those are the two states with an unusual graph of Covid at present. The Centre additionally advised putting a nighttime curfew in regions of excessive positivity.

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