Kerala lifts Sunday lockdown, Schools, Colleges to reopen from Feb 28

Kerala government has decided to further ease Covid-induced restrictions and lifted the Sunday lockdown. State government has also announced the reopening of schools and holding of classes in full capacity from February 28. Until then, all classes will be held with 50 percent attendance.Pinarayi Vijayan government also decided to open post-Covid clinics across the state. It has asked the Health Department to see appropriate action is taken against private hospitals which have without proper reason given monoclonal antibody treatment to Covid-19 patients. 

The third wave of the pandemic struck the state badly as on many days in the past month and early this month, the daily Covid positive cases had touched 50,000 or close to that. Since the past few days, the daily cases have witnessed a declining trend and even with a total of around 3 lakh active cases, the saving grace was those in the hospital were only around 3 per cent. “The evaluation meeting has instructed the health department to start a post-COVID registry to record the post-COVID symptoms and other health details. Post-COVID clinics have been opened and a state-level nodal officer has been appointed,” a release issued by the Chief Minister’s Office said.