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659 new COVID cases in Kozhikode, TPR 11.21%
The Hindu
With the Health Department confirming 659 more COVID-19 cases, the total number of patients undergoing treatment in Kozhikode district touched 14,292 on Monday. The test positivity rate rose from 9.55
With the Health Department confirming 659 more COVID-19 cases, the total number of patients undergoing treatment in Kozhikode district touched 14,292 on Monday. The test positivity rate rose from 9.55% to 11.21% even as intensive measures were in place to fight the pandemic. Of the newly confirmed cases, 645 persons contracted the virus through local transmission. The source remained unknown in the remaining cases. No Gulf returnees figured in the updated list. One of the major relief factors was the discharge of 1,508 patients from hospitals and first-line treatment centres. Health Department officials said 6,008 samples were collected for lab tests on Monday. They also informed that the number of tests would be increased by conducting more mega camps with special focus on critical containment zones.![](/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.