Ten other people who helped rescue passengers from an Air India Express flight from Dubai that crashed at Kozhikode International Airport on August 7 tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday when Kerala experienced the one-day peak of 1,758 new cases, authorities said.
About 80 of the citizens who participated in the rescue operations were already quarantined after some of the injured passengers tested positive for Covid-19.Last week, malappuram district collector, police commissioner and 23 senior officials tested positive for the virus.Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and seven of his closet colleagues were quarantined for interacting intensely with district officials on their scale at the site of the turn of destination.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri welcomed the timely intervention of the local population, which brought more than a part of the 190 passengers to hospitals.
Tuesday’s peak of 1,758 cases raised the number of Covid-19s in Kerala to 47,827, while six other patients brought the death toll to 176.
Amid the accumulation of cases, kerala’s government intensified surveillance, however, many experts said the state needed to focus more on mitigation now, also subtle its testing protocol and conduct more antigen testing and restrict RT-PCR testing.
RT-PCR tests will now be performed for patients with severe respiratory disorders or others from containment spaces in other states or countries.
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