Of the new cases, eight were health workers and 769 infected through contact with the source of it not being clear in 32, the release said. Kerala on Monday recorded 809 fresh COVID-19 infections which raised the total caseload to 65,21,907 so far. The southern State reported 78 deaths and took the tally to 66,886 … Read more
The government has divided the state’s 14 districts into three zones — A, B and C — factoring in the caseload at hospitals in each district. Kerala has introduced fresh norms to impose curbs amid a surge in the state’s Covid-19 test positivity rate to an all-time high of 40% on Thursday and the active … Read more
At present, Kerala has 49,459 active cases, of which 7.2% are in hospitals. (File) Children taking part in the ongoing pilgrimage to the Sabarimala temple in Kerala will not need a negative RT-PCR test report, the state government has announced. The Kerala government said in a November 26 order that parents or adults accompanying the … Read more
The state is reporting around 50% of India’s daily caseload. (PTI/File) Breakthrough infections constituted a sizable proportion of Kerala’s daily Covid-19 count over the past two weeks, state government data revealed. However, a tiny fraction of the patients required ICU admission or oxygen beds as vaccination reduced the severity of the symptoms, a state health … Read more
The number of daily average cases in the country on Tuesday was 28,204, with total active cases at 3,88,508. Kerala had 1,77,091 active cases, followed by Maharashtra with 74,941 cases and Karnataka with 23,956 cases. Kerala accounted for 51.5% of country’s total Covid-19 cases reported in the last week and is the only state at … Read more
The government order also said that even children can accompany adults to the establishments without any restrictions. In a surprising move, the state government of Kerala decided to substantially relax the Covid-19 restrictions despite the state continuing to record a high number of daily Covid-19 tally. In a decision taken on Wednesday, the state government … Read more
In January this year as well, the state was contributing as many as 60 percent of Covid cases to the national tally on some days. (Credit: PTI) Even as the spectre of the second ruthless wave of Coronavirus is behind us in most parts of the country, the state of Kerala has been continuing to … Read more
The officials also said that the capacity of beds can be further increased by another 500 as per the surge of Covid-19 cases. (Credit: The Indian Express) A Covid-19 dedicated centralised war-room which facilitates hospital admissions, Oxygen supply and other pandemic related logistic challenges is garnering praise for making a difference in the Ernakulam district … Read more
KK Shailaja talks elaborately about why Kerala should be given priority for vaccine distribution. (IE Image) Kerala has been facing the highest number of Covid-19 cases every day, totalling to one-fourth of the national tally. The state also has the highest number of active cases being reported, but the state government is not worried. Kerala … Read more
the recovery rate in the state has dropped to 69.83 percent due to the recent spike in the number of cases. Even as the country registered a slight fall in the number of active Coronavirus cases in past few days, the state of Kerala has emerged as the new hotspot adding over 11000 cases in … Read more