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Thiruvananthapuram:
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has announced several measures to stem the growth of coronavirus cases in the state, which has been recording the highest number of Covid cases in the country. The leader said testing in the state will be increased to 1 lakh per day. Measures are being taken to increase the daily testing to 1 lakh. 70% of these will be RT-PCR, Mr Vijayan told the media, while mentioning that there were criticisms that the state was doing more antigen tests.
Around 20,000 police personnel will be deployed at public places till February 10 to ensure that precautionary measures against the virus are being followed by the people, Mr Vijayan said, adding ward-level committees involving health workers, ASHA workers, Janmaitri police will be revived.