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In 2011, Balram scored an upset win over senior CPM leader P Mammikkutty by 3,197 votes. Balram retained the seat in 2016 with a higher margin of 10,547 votes.
ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said 0.04 per cent of 17,37,178 individuals, who received the second dose of Covaxin, were positive for COVID-19, while 0.03 per cent of 1,57,32,754 people, who took the second dose of Covishield, contracted the infection.
The UDF claims to win 75 to 80 seats. The LDF hopes to win at least 80 seats. Whoever wins, the majority could be slender.
COVID-appropriate behaviour, containment measures, testing have to be implemented more efficiently, medical infrastructure has to be ramped up and vaccination drive intensified.
Election campaigns used to end with much fanfare in Kerala 48 hours before the polling. The event is known as ‘Kottikkalasam’ in Malayalam, meaning grand finale.
All eyes are on Palakkad and Thrithala, represented by vocal young Congress leaders in the legislative assembly. Both of them have strong challengers this time.
Thrithala used to be a CPM bastion, with the party holding the constituency for 20 years untill Congress's V T Balram wrested it in 2011. CPM, in a bid to recapture the constituency has fielded former MP M B Rajesh.
Both the vaccines (Covishield and Covaxin) are effective against the UK and Brazilian variant and the work against the South African variant is still ongoing.