New Delhi: Kerala, which is experiencing a rise in the covid cases since past few days has decided to further extend the weekend lowkdown from this week.
A six-member team from the National Centre for Disease Control to the state will be send by the Central Government.
Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Health Minister, said “as a large number of Covid cases are still being reported in Kerala, the team will aid the state’s ongoing efforts in Covid management”.
According to the sources of the health minister, the state is “focused more on mitigation process of treating cases than containment”.
40 percent of the covid cases is being reported from the southern states of the country.
An increasing Covid reproduction rate, in Kerala had earlier this month created concerns of a renewed wave, which could possibly fuel a national spike.
The vaccination rate of Kerala is much faster than rest of the states but its sero-positivity figure is lower.
Kerala, at 44.4 percent, has lowest Covid antibodies according to a serosurvey by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) done between June 14 and July 6.
On Wednesday, kerala recorded 22,056 fresh COVID-19 cases pushing the infection caseload to 33,27,301, and more than 131 deaths.
