Rise in number of Covid cases due to local transmission and also cases with unidentified sources of transmission have become a cause for worry for state capital.
Seven more positive cases were reported in the district on Friday taking the total number of active cases to 84.
A case reported from Manacaud is a 41-year-old man who is working with Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. He has no travel history and does not feature in the contact list of the autorickshaw driver. The district health administration is yet to trace the source of infection of this person.As many as 12 employees of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre were put under observation after he was tested positive. All of them were in direct contact with him.
Selected areas on the sprawling campus of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here will be disinfected on Saturday after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.
Areas exposed to the patient including the air-conditioning section, a number of laboratories and the main gate at Veli have been identified and isolated. They will be disinfected, the VSSC said in an official statement.
The three ISRO facilities in Thiruvananthapuram — the others being the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre and the ISRO Inertial Systems Unit — had enforced strict precautions on the campuses, given the COVID-19 situation in the State. These are still in force.
The ISRO units had gone on heightened vigil after the ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu, had to be closed for a day for disinfection after an engineer tested positive earlier this week.
Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, such as thermal screening and hand sanitising at entry gates, are already in place in VSSC, a spokesperson said. Wearing of face masks and social distancing in all places including the canteen and at meetings are adhered to strictly, the spokesperson said.
