Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala

COVID-19

Kasaragod

Pinarayi Vijayan

Kozhikode

Karipur

: A Non-Resident Indian proved to be a predicament for thegovernment, not because he tested positive for, but he threw caution to the winds and interacted with hundreds of people, putting their lives at risk, and participated in functions including wedding and travelled through three districts, the sources said.Two legislators,MLA NA Nellikunnu and Manjeshwar MLA MC Kamaruddin went into self-quarantine on Friday after they came into contact with the trouble-maker NRI at a wedding.Kerala Chief Ministerbriefing reporters on Friday evening sarcastically said that the case of Kasaragod native who came from Dubai is quite bizarre. He stayed inafter landing atInternational Airport. He went to Kozhikode and then to Kasaragod and participated in all public functions. This means that Kasaragod deserves special attention of the government. Of the 12 cases tested positive for the virus on Friday, six were reported in Kasaragod.Following this, the state government has decided to go for week-long lockdown in Kasaragod. All government offices in the district will be shut for a week. Places of worship will be shut for two weeks.The NRI in his late 40s is admitted to the isolation ward of the Kasaragod government general hospital.Sources say he landed from abroad at the Kozhikode airport in Karipur on March 11. Thereafter he checked into a lodge there. He went shopping in the city. The next day morning he boarded the Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Maveli Express to go to Kasaragod. After resting for a while in the morning he went to several places. He visited the house of a relative where preparations are underway for a wedding in the family. Later he visited his friends and, among other things, watched a football match.The scene on Saturday is that the NRI is not cooperating with the authorities to divulge his travel details in Kerala. As a result, the authorities were not able to prepare the patient's flow chart to track the people with whom he had interacted.