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Covid-19: Kerala shows the way -AM Jigeesh

-The Hindu Business Line

Boasting a determined political leadership, Kerala has set a record of sorts in flattening the Covid-19 curve

On January 18, KK Shailaja — “Shailaja Teacher”, as she is popularly known for her no-nonsense, science teacher demeanour — summoned a meeting of the Kerala health department, a ministry she had efficiently steered through unprecedented floods in 2018-19 and the outbreak of Nipah virus. There was no cause for alarm for the world had not woken up then to the cataclysmic upheaval that was still brewing in Wuhan, China.

Policymakers in India had not registered the small news item about the World Health Organization’s confirmation that the respiratory illness that was claiming lives in China was caused by the novel coronavirus.

But Teacher was not one to take chances. She was aware that there were several Malayali students in Wuhan. She certainly had not forgotten the hard lessons from the deadly Nipah, a killer virus with a fatality rate of a staggering 75 per cent, which in 2018 claimed 17 lives in Kerala despite the state’s determined containment efforts.

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