Kerala recorded 18,607 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the first after implementing a revised strategy for containment of the pandemic, in which the test positivity rate (TPR) was replaced with the weekly infection population rate (WIPR).
The weekend lockdown was limited to Sunday, normal life and business were allowed to run on other days, except in areas with high WIPR, multiplied by 1,000 on the basis of reported infections every Wednesday and panchayat or was divided by the total population of the urban ward. .
WIPR limit of 10%
Therefore, a WIPR of 10 per cent or more will attract triple lockdown and related strict restrictions. A health department spokesperson said on Sunday that there are 266 wards under 52 local self-government jurisdictions in the state, with a WIPR of 10 per cent and a cumulative TPR of 13.87 per cent. the northern district of Malappuram (3,051); Thrissur (2,472); Kozhikode (2,467); Ernakulam (2,216); and Palakkad (1,550) topped the daily new Covid count on Sunday when 1,34,196 samples were tested. In the day, 93 people also died in the last few days, taking the death toll to 17,747 so far.
Vaccination in tribal areas
At least 4,90,858 persons are under observation across the state for symptoms, of which 4,61,530 are in homes/institutions, only 29,328 are in hospitals.
On Sunday, the above 18 age group received the first dose of vaccine in seven tribal local body jurisdictions in Wayanad.
The spokesman quoted Health Minister Veena George as saying that the achievement was achieved after the health department managed to vaccinate all persons above 45 years of age in the inaccessible tribal areas of Wayanad and Kasaragod. For this 13 mobile teams were deployed.
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