{"id":36887,"date":"2021-09-15T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/why-kerala-is-still-in-the-grip-of-indias-second-wave-of-covid"},"modified":"2021-09-15T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:00:36","slug":"why-kerala-is-still-in-the-grip-of-indias-second-wave-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36887","title":{"rendered":"Why Kerala is still in the grip of India\u2019s second wave of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National cases are at record lows, yet in state that excelled in handling first wave rates have stayed high since May<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Covid-19 swept through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> last year, there was one state that was always seen to stand out in its handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cKerala model\u201d became a byword for success in containing the virus, named after a series of measures introduced early on by the south Indian state, including rigorous and focused testing, containment, community support and contact tracing. The state boasted the lowest death toll from the virus and Kerala\u2019s now-ousted health minister, KK Shailaja, became known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/14\/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19\">Covid slayer<\/a>\u201d and was named Vogue India\u2019s woman of the year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/15\/why-kerala-is-still-in-the-grip-of-indias-second-wave-of-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National cases are at record lows, yet in state that excelled in handling first wave rates have stayed high since MayCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs Covid-19 swept through India last year, there was one state that was alw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,346,62,79,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36888,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887\/revisions\/36888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}