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State’s tally up by 2,216
The Hindu
TPR touches 4.69%, 12 new deaths
Kerala reported 2,216 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, when 47,229 samples were tested in 24 hours, taking the State’s cumulative case burden ever since the pandemic began to 11,17,993 cases. The test positivity rate (TPR) shot up to 4.69%. With 1,853 recoveries, the active case pool is 24,582. The cumulative recoveries reported by the State ever since the pandemic began has risen to 10,88,522.![](/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.