Kerala on Sunday diagnosed 8,353 new Covid-19 cases while the total number of patients reached 84,497. The State also confirmed 23 deaths due to Covid-19 taking the total fatalities till date to 836. Neighboring Tamil Nadu diagnosed 5,489 new patients on Sunday while the total number of Covid-19 patients in the State stood at 46, 120.
The only comforting news from Kerala is that 4,851 patients got recovered on a single day, the highest till date. Even as the Covid-19 cases in Kerala are surging ahead, the health system in the State is entering a phase of uncertainty and disarray.
The Kerala Government Medical Officers Association has threatened of an indefinite agitation as the government suspended on Friday a covid nodal officer who is a senior doctor and two veteran nurses from Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram on charges of mistreating a patient.
This gave rise to a series of chain reactions as seven doctors of four Medical Colleges in the State resigned from the post of Covid Nodal Officer.
Kozhikode tested 1,164 new cases while the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram tested 1,119 new patients. Now Kerala has overtaken Tamil Nadu in the total number of active cases as well as the number of new patients diagnosed on a daily basis.