Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Kerala despite the waning of the second wave elsewhere in India.
The southern Indian state of Kerala accounts for more than half of the country's new Covid-19 infections. The BBC's Soutik Biswas and Vikas Pandey report on why cases continue to rise in the state, months after the waning of the deadly second wave.
Sticking faithfully to the contagion control playbook of test, trace and isolate and involving grassroots networks, Kerala brought down its case count drastically. There were breathless stories about the state flattening the curve. The first wave was protracted, but Kerala managed to control the spread of infection. The official death count remained low.
The reproduction number of the virus - which explains a disease's ability to spread and estimates the number of people infected by one already infected person - has crossed one. This, many believe, proves that Kerala has done an admirable job in controlling the spread of coronavirus unlike the rest of India.
There is also risk in "letting people get infected, even while preventing deaths", says virologist Dr Shahid Jameel.- long-term problems after recovering from the original infection - which afflicts up to a third of those infected, including asymptomatic patients.Kerala is at an "early [stage] in runaway exponential growth" in infections, believes Dr Swapneil Parikh, a physician.
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