COVID-19 | Five died and over 90 turn positive at home for destitute and old age in Kannur

“The home requires at least ₹25,000 for medicines, but now it has ₹2.37 lakh pending to be paid to pharma company, which is supplying them the medicine,” a caretaker said.

At least five people have died in the last few days and more than 90 people have been found positive for COVID-19 at Kripa Bhavan run by Kripa Charitable Trust in Peravoor in Kannur. For several homeless, destitute and people with Pychiatric problems, Kripa Charitable Trust at Peravoor in Kannur is an abode to recovery. However, M. V. Santhosh and his wife Nirmala, who are running the shelter and rehabilitation home for 17 years, are helplessly watching them die and many other sufferings. More than 290 people have been sheltered here and after the first COVID-19 case was reported here on August 6, more than 90 people have so far been found positive for the disease.