With 122 people succumbing during the last 24 hours ending Thursday evening, Covid-19 has claimed more than 25,000 lives till date in Kerala. A release by Health Minister Veena George said that death toll due to the pandemic reached 25,087 by Thursday evening while 15, 914 new people were diagnosed with Covid-19. Doctors in Government Hospitals across the State would go on an indefinite agitation from October 4 demanding better working conditions, said the office bearers of KGMOA.
Test Positivity Rate remained at the 15 per cent mark signaling that Kerala continued to remain a high risk State despite some relief seen during the last two weeks. Hectic activities were on in schools and colleges to reopen the institutions which have been shut down for the last 21 months.
The Kerala Government Medical Officers Association, the umbrella organization of all Government doctors in the State announced a series of agitations against the State administration demanding better service conditions and restoration of their allowances which were scrapped two years ago.
“On Gandhi Jayanthi Day, doctors across the State would stage fast and this would be followed by an indefinite non-cooperation movement for the restoration of our allowances and better working conditions,” said Dr T N Suresh and Dr G S Vijayakrishnan, general secretary and president respectively of KGMOA.