Kerala, the state governed by Communist parties, is single handedly contributing more than half of the total Covid cases of the country. And thanks to the incompetence of the Kerala government, the national caseload refuses to slide towards zero.
Kerala’s neighbouring states fear that its incompetency may cost them heavily because, in a pandemic such as Covid, your success or failure depends on you as much as it does on the success or failure of your neighbor.
Karnataka, which receives a good number of professionals and laborers in its cities, has decided to dig up holes on roads to ensure that the people do not cross borders on foot or on vehicles.
In districts like Dakshina Kannada that share a border with Kerala, the number of cases is far higher as compared to districts with higher population and population density like Begaluru. It is very evident that due to the rising number of cases in Kerala, districts in Karnataka are also being affected.
The administration tried to stop the people coming from Kerala without a negative Covid test certificate, but according to police, it is humanly impossible to keep a 24*7 vigil on roads. Therefore, the government has been forced to dig up roads.
“We have to take stringent steps like redirecting the traffic to 12 checkposts in Karnataka where checking can be carried out properly. Therefore, at some points they (authorities) may have dug up roads,” said an official.
Kerala has been reporting more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases everyday after the Eid-ul-Adha celebrations in the state. For the first time since May, Kerala reported more than twenty thousand cases in a single day after the Eid celebrations. The Supreme Court slammed the Kerala government for allowing a three-day relaxation in Covid-19 restrictions on the occasion of the Bakrid.
With a sudden spike in cases in Kerala, 53 per cent of the fresh infections in the country are now reported from the state and Bakrid has turned out to be a Super Spreader event contributing to the same. Although the Kerala government’s negligence on Bakrid was a huge mistake there seems to be silence in the national media regarding the same.
Kerala reported more than 15,000 cases on a daily basis day over the last two weeks, which is the second-highest in the country after Maharashtra, but after Eid, it bagged the top spot overtaking Maharashtra. The Muslim-majority areas in Northern Kerala have reported the maximum number of cases in the state, and these are the areas that shares borders with the state of Karnataka. It was followed by Thrissur (2,623), Kozhikode (2,397), Ernakulam (2,352), Palakkad (2,115), Kollam (1,914), Kottayam (1,136), Thiruvananthapuram (1,100), Kannur (1,072), Alappuzha (1,064), Kasaragod (813), Wayanad (583), Pathanamthitta (523) and Idukki (400).
Earlier TFI had extensively reported how the Kerala model would contribute to the third wave of covid 19. Kerala’s model of healthcare has failed spectacularly in the state along with Maharashtra as the cases continue to surge. The first and second waves started from these two states and later engulfed the entire country.
The damage has been done as Bakrid celebrations in Kerala have resulted in increasing fresh Covid-19 infections in the state. It won’t be very long until the infection would spread from this state to the rest of the country if serious border restrictions are not placed by neighboring states like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.