Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Kerala records 31,337 new cases, 97 deaths and 45,926 recoveries

Coronavirus News LIVE Update - India
Coronavirus News LIVE Update - India

18/05/2021


Kerala on Tuesday reported 31,337 fresh COVID-19 cases, pushing the caseload to 21,70,651, while the toll mounted to 6,612 with 97 more deaths, the state government said.  As many as 45,926 persons have been cured, taking the recoveries to 18,46,105 and the active cases to 3,47,626.   In the last 24 hour, 1,34,553 samples were tested and the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) was 23.29 percent. So far, 1,81,49,395 samples have been tested.

COVID-19 has not spared even a single family and still Central government's officers are living in "ivory towers" oblivious of ground realities, observed the Delhi High Court which on Tuesday was of the view that manufacturing of Sputnik V vaccine in India is giving an opportunity to the nation staring at shortage of vaccines.  God bless this country, was another remark of a bench of Justices Manmohan and Navin Chawla which castigated the Centre for not being alive to the pandemic situation that is taking so many lives.
 
The bench said the collaboration of Panacea Biotec with Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) for manufacturing of Sputnik V vaccine should be seen as an opportunity to ensure its usage here and in such matters instructions are to be taken from the highest authorities that too within 30 minutes.  It said "no one is applying its mind" when there is an opportunity for the government to get millions of vaccines and it should use this as a window. Otherwise, deaths will continue to happen. Every day you are castigated by each and every court and still you are not awake.