ERNAKULAM: Kerala is turning the corner as its covid-19 curve plateaus, after dealing with one of the highest number of cases in India at one point.
In a telephonic interview, Kerala's finance minister Thomas Isaac spoke about how the state has tackled the virus challenge so far, what lies ahead, its plans to restart the economy and high debt levels of states.
Edited excerpts: Is the worst over for Kerala in the covid-19 crisis? I was checking the data. Going by international norms for covid-19 spread, each person should have infected two to three others.
But, the total 254 primary covid-19 patients, who arrived from abroad and started (spreading) the infection, caused the secondary spread to only 91 in Kerala.