Veena George, the brand new Health Minister of Kerala, mentioned that the precedence is on tackling the Covid disaster and are transferring forward with the Covid defence plans.
She mentioned that the well being division below the management of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and former well being minister KK Shailaja have carried out a superb job. “Kerala has created a model, other States are looking at us and we are moving in the same path,” mentioned Veena George.
She is taking up as a well being minister from Shailaja who has been appreciated even internationally for the way she dealt with the Covid and Nipah disaster. It got here as a enormous shock to many as Shailaja was not included within the new Cabinet. So, the problem earlier than the brand new well being minister is big.
“We have already formulated a very good plan. It was very well accepted even internationally. We are going through a lockdown, cases and test positivity rate is coming down. Oxygen consumption has come down, we are focussing on the logistics. Every local body has already started domiciliary care centres, the Covid first line and second-line treatment centres. We are again and again increasing the medical capacity.” Veena George instructed CNN-News18.
She added that the impact of lockdown can be seen solely after 10 extra days.
The minister added that there was one loss of life reported within the State as a consequence of mucormycosis.
The minister mentioned, “It is not a new disease. In 2019, About 15 cases were reported. Internationally death rate is 40 per cent but in our State, in 2019 only 2 persons died. There has been a death yesterday due to mucormycosis, the person was from Nagercoil. It’s not a very serious situation here in Kerala as we have only about 13 live cases.”
She added that Kerala has created a nice mannequin and can proceed in the identical path. She added that every one departments have challenges however there’s a superb staff.
Kerala recorded about 29,673 Covid optimistic circumstances previously 24 hours and about 142 deaths have been reported. The lockdown within the State has been prolonged until May 30 with a triple lockdown in Malappuram district.
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