After CM Vijayan, now Oommen Chandy tests COVID-19 positive
The former Chief Minister had travelled across Kerala on a rigorous election campaign ever since the candidature list was announced during mid-March.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy have tested positive for coronavirus. He has been resting at his home, Puthupally House at Poojappura here. The health department authorities are planning to shift him to the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College on Thursday night itself.
The former Chief Minister had travelled across Kerala on a rigorous election campaign ever since the candidature list was announced during mid-March.
Coronavirus | Kerala’s delayed approach towards herd immunity
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March 07, 2021 10:18 IST
Unlike the rest of India, Kerala has maintained the same level of daily testing despite a reduction in number of cases
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Seeking out: We have been undertaking active case finding in the State. Anyone with influenza-like illness is tested for coronavirus infection, says Dr. Khobragade.
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Unlike the rest of India, Kerala has maintained the same level of daily testing despite a reduction in number of cases
From mid-February, a spike in daily new cases was reported from a few States including Maharashtra. For days on end, the Health Ministry kept repeating the message that Kerala too was “witnessing an upsurge of daily new cases”. Even as recently as March 6, the Health Ministry wrongly implicated Kerala for the surge in cases when it said “Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Karnataka continue to report
January 29, 2021
Due process was not followed by Kerala’s IT Department in finalising the contract with US-based data analytics platform Sprinklr, a report by an enquiry committee set up by the state government concluded. All agreements were not negotiated or discussed “threadbare”, and the IT Department granted “omnibus rights” on data to Sprinklr.
Alarmingly, the committee found significant inconsistencies in the auditing process of Sprinklr’s systems, and concluded that there was very little visibility into the data security practices of the company.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s who also holds the Information Technology portfolio approval was never taken, and the then Principal IT Secretary, M Sivasankar brokered the deal with Sprinklr, the committee found.
Kerala Chief Minister kept in the dark over Sprinklr deal, says report by committee
Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala had alleged that under the guise of COVID-19, the details of patients were sold to the US company Sprinklr Inc. Following this, the CM appointed the committee.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Madhavan Nambiar committee, which probed the Sprinklr deal, has found that former IT secretary M Sivasankar unilaterally signed the deal keeping even the Chief Minister in the dark. The report has given a clean chit to the Chief Minister. It had already been reported that the law department s consent was not taken. The Madhavan Nambiar committee report s contents have come out through an RTI reply. It s the first time the state government has released the contents of the Madhavan Nambiar committee report in the public domain.