CHENNAI/KOCHI, April 19 -- Situation in Kerala has become alarming as the Department of Health on Sunday diagnosed 18, 257 persons with Covid-19. The State has 1.23 million Covid-19 patients as on Sunday evening, according to a press release issued by the Health Department of Kerala. The day also saw 25 persons succumbing to the pandemic taking the death toll till date to 4,929.

Details release by the State administration belied the claims made by Chief Minister and Health Minister that everything was under control in Kerala. "Today's data proves that the Government has lost control and direction of the preventive mechanism in the State. Since day one the Kerala Government failed to convince the people to regulate and alter the life style ...