State to revise lockdown strategy

Local-level restrictions depending on intensity of disease transmission: CM

Kerala will change the lockdown strategy after June 16, when the current phase of restrictions end, so that rather than a total lockdown across the State, restrictions at various levels may be imposed regionally, depending on the intensity of disease transmission in that locality. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here on Monday that while there was a reduction in test positivity rate (TPR) across the State by 10% and in new cases by 20% in the past one week, disaggregated data would show a totally different picture at the local body level. In 14 local bodies, the TPR was above 35%, in 37 local bodies it was between 28-35%, while in 127 local bodies, the TPR was between 21-28%