CORRECTION: Kerala's COVID-19 lessons for India and Modi's government We are deleting a previous tweet that incorrectly said the state government was criticized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi; the criticism was from his party
A man looks out from a coronavirus disease ward in the Government Medical College Hospital in Manjeri, in the Malappuram district of the southern state of Kerala, India. August 18, 2021. Picture taken August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Krishna N. DasBut it may hold key lessons for country's pandemic managementState aims to inoculate all adults with 1 vaccine dose by Sept
It shows the state's containment measures have helped to catch infections early, allowing authorities to better manage the illness and dramatically lower the death rate - a stark contrast to people dying in carparks and outside hospitals for lack of oxygen and beds in big cities like Delhi at the height of the health crisis a few months earlier.
All the same, at 0.5%, Kerala still has the lowest fatality rate among all but one thinly populated state. The national figure is 1.4% and it is 1.3% for the country's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
These factors, along with the strained medical resources across much of India, largely explain why the overall national death rate is much higher than in the Communist-run state. Kerala officials argue that they are able to keep businesses open as the state has the best testing rate among Indian states -The model, epidemiologists say, can be replicated in few other states with good health facilities, such as neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
The Indian government recommends 70% of all COVID-19 tests be carried out by the RT-PCR method, while Kerala's rate is less than 50%.
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