Kerala expects Covid cases to fall only by July

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 19 : The Kerala Health Department, headed by Minister K.K. Shailaja, is sceptical as the number of Covid patients has been on the rise everyday and a study conducted by it says that the cases were expected to come down to 1,000 per day only by July.
Kerala has the highest number of Covid positive cases per day followed by Maharashtra. While the state had 3,346 positive cases on Monday, Maharashtra had 3,081 cases.
The number of positive cases per day in other states have come down below thousand since the past few weeks. Karnataka had registered 745, West Bengal 589 and Tamil Nadu 589 per day once.
Death figures per day, show the state is second only to Maharashtra.
As the number of recoveries were more than positive cases per day, the health department is of the opinion that the medication and precautions were giving results.
Shailaja said that the local body polls and the festivals were the reason for the increase in cases in the state and called upon the people not to let their guards down.