Govt. clamps down hard on daily life
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Measures short of a total lockdown; Pinarayi says pandemic situation precarious
The State government on Monday stopped short of imposing a total Statewide lockdown. Nevertheless, it has clamped down hard on civic life to rein in the upward spiral of COVID-19 cases. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said exotic and virulent variants of the virus had spurred the aggressive second wave. “Kerala’s current epidemic situation is similar to that of New Delhi in early April. The government is constrained to impose tough containment measures to stem the rising tide of infections. In some aspects, the restrictions are not dissimilar to those imposed during the lockdown. The government had no choice. It could not allow the outbreak to intensify, surpass the surge threshold, and finally overrun the State’s finite healthcare resources,” he said.
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