Kerala’s leading minister Pinarayi Vijayan and seven of his ministers were quarantined Friday after 23 state government officials who were part of the rescue operation in a plane crash in Kozhikode tested positive for coronavirus.
In a brief statement, the CM’s workplace said it would move on to self-quamaning and that it would not be to deploy the tricolor on Independence Day and that this would be done through Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran. CM and Governor Arif Mohammad Khan had traveled to Kozhikode in North Kerala with a giant team a day after the 18-person aerial tragedy, adding up two pilots.
The resolution came after Malappuram District Collector K Gopalakrishnan and U police commissioner Abdul Kareem tested positive, along with 21 officials who oversaw rescue paintings with local citizens after Dubai’s Air India Express evacuation plane skated and crashed last Friday.
Seven ministers, in addition to the Minister of Health, KK Shailaja, and the Director General of Police (DGP), Loknath Behera, have been quarantined. District officials remained at the scene of the turn of fate for many hours and led rescue operations with the local population. In fact, they were quarantined after two wounded in the turn of fate tested positive.
“Some symptoms have been there ever since and then it was positive. That’s a component of our work. I am relieved that we could restrict the death toll to 18,” said collector K Gopalakrishnan, who arrived at the scene in 20 minutes and took command of rescue operations. Although the airport is known by Kozhikode, it is located in the Malappuram district, at least 25 km from the city of Kozhikode.
Previously, the Central Industrial Security Force (FSSC) had also asked its corps of workers involved in the rescue operation to quarantine. Kondotty, where the airport is located, a containment area, however, the young people arrived here in large quantities, which they then received many, adding to the Union’s Minister of Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri and Air India. Local populations are also quarantined and the effects of their tests are yet to come.
Meanwhile, the state reported 1,569 new instances and 10 deaths. The death toll increased to 140 and the total number of cases to 41,246. State Health Minister KK Shailaja said the bodies are expected to peak next month and experts warned that daily instances would reach 15,000.
Kerala was the first state to report a virus case in the country in January.
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