Given the increasing cases of corona in the state, the state government has decided to continue the weekly lockdown in Kerala. There is an atmosphere of fear in the whole country due to the third wave of Kovid-19. The Kerala government is doing vaccination to protect people from corona, as well as the Kerala government has started a campaign called 'Mathrikavacham' for the Kerala government to vaccinate pregnant women with corona.
Along with corona infection, cases of the Zika virus are also being seen in the state. The first case of the Zika virus was reported in Kerala on July 8, in which a 24-year-old pregnant woman was infected with the virus. Now two new cases of Zika virus have been reported in Kerala, after which the total cases of Zika virus in the state have increased to 30.
In India, 38,079 new cases of corona have been found in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases of the corona to 4,24,025. There have been 560 deaths in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate in India has increased to 97.31 percent. The Indian Council of Medical Research says that till July 16, the total number of corona tests is 44,20,21,954, of which 19,98,715 samples have been tested yesterday.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, and Kerala regarding the increasing cases of corona in the country, and assured all the Chief Ministers that the Central Government would provide all possible help in dealing with Kovid. and will support. These states account for more than 80 percent of the total corona cases in July.
Due to the corona epidemic, the Gujarat government has increased the night curfew. Night curfew has been imposed in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Gandhinagar, and Junagadh till July 31.