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Kerala coronavirus disease (Covid-19) number of dead rose to seven after 62 years of age, the woman died in the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on Monday night, health officials said.
It was said that the woman, a resident of Kannur, was a cripple, and suffers from many other ailments. Her husband, who works in a market in Thalassery, has also tested positive. The source of the infection is not yet traced.
Many of these cases have been detected in the north of Kerala, in the last few days.
A woman, who was injured after a jackfruit hit on his head, was positive in Kannur two days ago. No one had tested positive in their neighborhood or in their house before her. In the same way, a man with a spinal injury later tested positive.
Kerala had a good track record with effective follow-up and monitoring measures, but after expatriates and people stranded in other states began flocking to the state in large number of Covid-19 cases shot up.
At least a lakh of people have returned to the state in the last two weeks. Officials say that at least 80% of the recent cases are imported.
There are around 1.80 million Kerala residents working in countries in the Middle East alone. At least 50 flights is expected from the Gulf this week as part of the Vande Bharat evacuation plan.
Kerala was the first in the country to report a Covid-19 case in January after a medical student who returned to China from Wuhan. But managed well in the containment of the virus in the first two stages with the effectiveness of your intervention and surveillance.
Another concern for the state is that at least nine health workers have been infected in the past three days.
Out of the 896 Covid-19 reported cases in the state, 359 are active and around a lakh of people are under observation.
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