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2,508 new cases in State’s tally
The Hindu
Total cases at 11.29 lakh, TPR at 4.84%
Thiruvananthapuram Kerala reported 2,508 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday when 51,783 samples were tested in the past 24 hours. The State’s cumulative case burden ever since the pandemic began, rose to 11,29,890 cases. The test positivity rate (TPR) registered 4.84 % on the day.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.