Thiruvananthapuram: After pulling at night at night and tight locking steps on Sundays, imposed after the increase in Covid-19 cases in the state, the Kerala government on Tuesday decided to recover Saturday as a working day, wherever it applies.
“All employees are instructed to report assignments (on Saturday) therefore,” commands issued by the Disaster Management Department.
It was said that on August 4, all government offices, government-quasi, public sector businesses, companies, autonomous bodies, and commissions were allowed to work from Monday to Friday with full presence.
“After assessing the current Covid-19 scenario and restrictions imposed in the country to contain the same, the government is happy to recover Saturday as a working day, wherever it applies,” he added.
Given relaxation in the limit of Covid-19, the state government also decided to restore biometric entry systems from September 16 for the government, semi-government, and the public sector.
It is said that employees can use their identity cards to access biometric entry systems.
The biometric entry system was stopped since March last year due to Covid-19 pandemic.
On Monday, Kerala reported 15,058 fresh Covid-19 cases and 99 deaths that pushed the total infection to 43.90,489 and the death toll became 22,650.
The level of testicitivity test (TPR) was recorded at 16.39 percent.
In addition, since Sunday, 28,439 people have recovered from infection taking total recovery to 41,58,504 and the number of active cases to 2.08,773.