Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac tests Covid positive, asks staff to self-quarantine

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac. (Categorical Photograph by way of Gajendra Yadav/Document)

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac on Sunday examined certain for novel coronavirus, in keeping with native media studies. The 67-year-old has requested his non-public personnel to move underneath quarantine. That is the primary time minister from the Kerala govt has examined certain for Covid-19.

Isaac examined Covid certain in an antigen check. He has been admitted to Thiruvananthapuram Clinical School.

This comes on an afternoon when the state reported its best ever single-day spurt in coronavirus instances with three,082 other people trying out certain for the pathogen and 10 comparable fatalities, taking the overall an infection rely within the state to 87,840. Fifty well being employees had been amongst the ones inflamed by way of the virus. Read the story in Malayalam

Kerala has examined 41,392 samples all the way through the closing 24 hours. At the moment, there are 557 hotspots in Kerala.

Remaining month, Kerala Leader Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his six cupboard colleagues had long gone into quarantine after senior officers concerned within the Kozhikode aircraft crash rescue operation examined certain for Covid-19. Well being Minister Okay Okay Shailaja and ministers A C Moideen, E Chandrasekharan, V S Sunil Kumar, Kadannappally Ramachandran and Okay T Jaleel had been some of the ministers who went into quarantine. Meeting Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan had additionally long gone into quarantine. Alternatively, none had examined certain.

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