THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Health Minister K K Shailaja has come out to warn that the number of Covid patients in Kerala is going to increase in the coming days. A major chunk of people coming from abroad have the disease.

“Now this is the more difficult times compared to the last two phases. More and more people are coming from foreign countries. This repatriation is happening at a time when the number of patients are increasing in many other countries as well as India. Earlier, many people started returning to India when the spread of disease was at its threshold. Now, this the time when the disease is fast spreading. According to calculations, the number of Covid patients in India will double in the next 13 days,” the minister explained.