
Cases dip, but hospital admissions stay up in Kerala
The Hindu
State reports 32,762 new cases at a TPR of 23.31%
Kerala registered 32,762 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, when 1,40,545 samples were tested in 24 hours. The test positivity rate in the State on Wednesday was 23.31%. The daily new cases are beginning to stabilise and the case graph is beginning to show signs of plateauing at 30-35,000 cases, a possible effect of the lockdown since the past two weeks, as had been projected by public health experts. Along with the dip in new cases, the active caseload in the State is going down steadily, thanks to the good number of recoveries being registered every day.
The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











