Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said as daily Covid cases are coming down, it has been decided to lift the ‘triple lockdown’ imposed in four districts, save from Malappuram, but the state-wide lockdown has been extended till May 30.
He said the day saw 29,673 people turn positive after 1,33,558 samples were sent for testing in the past 24 hours.
Presently, there are 3,06,346 active cases in the state while 41,032 people turned negative, taking the total cured to 19,79,919.
Vijayan pointed out that the average test positivity rate in the past three days has become 23.3 per cent while it was 22.22 on Friday and hence, it was decided to lift the triple lockdown in Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur and Ernakulam districts but Malappuram district will continue to be under the severe restriction as things are not that good there.
