In a first, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday confirmed that there is a community spread of the novel coronavirus happening in two coastal villages.
The villages, Pulluvila and Poonthura, have been acting like clusters of super spread for the last few days.
While all the districts of Kerala has been affected by COVID19 currently, the capital Thiruvananthapuram followed by Ernakulam has the most number of cases.
“The situation is serious in Thiruvananthapuram, the disease is spreading really fast,” said the CM.
With that, the Government is coming up with new rules, strict lockdown restrictions.
In the backdrop of widespread local transmission, Thiruvananthapuram’s coastal regions will be divided into three zones and cordoned off, he said.
He also added that there will be more special workers and police team to monitor the area, more frontline treatment centres to be set up in the region.
Kerala’s total confirmed cases reached 11,066 on Friday, and 6,029 of them are active cases. There are 791 new covid-19 cases on Friday, the highest daily hike so far, 532 of them through local transmission. The source of infection in 42 cases are still unknown. The CM announced in the briefing on Friday.
However, Its deaths per million is still less than one percent in the state, much lesser than the more than two percent national average.
The state has tested 16,642 samples in the last 24 hours, said the CM. Kerala has 1,78,481 people under observation, of them 6,124 are in hospitals and the rest in home quarantine.
