Thiruvananthapuram: The United Nations (UN) celebrated Jan Seva Divas on Tuesday and honoured Health Minister K.K. Shailaja to tackle the coronavirus epidemic. The event was held on a virtual platform, attended by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other top UN personalities, who praised all leaders for effectively dealing with the coronavirus, including the health of Kerala Minister K.K. Shailaja.
On this occasion, Shailaja said that the experience of dealing with Nipah virus and two floods (2018 and 2019) helped control the time from the corona. She stated, "Since the Corona cases started coming to Wuhan, Kerala had followed the WHO's guidelines and we followed all standard operating protocols and international regulations and thus we were able to increase the contact expansion rate to 12.5 percent.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala said on Wednesday that 152 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic have been registered in the state, 81 patients have recovered and 1691 people are under treatment in different districts. The total number of cases in the state has increased to 3603, out of which 1691 cases are active.
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