600 parents booked in Kerala for flouting COVID rules as wards take KEAM entrance exam

On Wednesday, Kerala police filed a case against about 600 parents of students who appeared for Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) entrance exam, for flouting COVID-19 protocol on July 16. Photos and videos of people garing outside examination centre were circulating on social media.

Case registered against 600 parents

police team will verify pictures and videos from outside examination centres to identify each person. case was registered under relevant sections of Kerala Epidemic Diseases Ordinance 2020, ANI reported. Senior BJP leer Sobha Surendran on July 17 shared pictures of parents crowding outside St Mary's Higher Secondary School in Pattom and criticised Kerala government. 

Reacting to news of students who appeared for exams testing positive for Coronavirus, Surendran on Tuesday h said, "This is what all of us warned about, and yet authoritarian, clueless Kerala Chief Minister went ahe and did it anyway. A ticking time bomb."

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Meanwhile, at least five of more than 88,000 students, who took up KEAM examination held recently across state, have tested positive for COVID-19, PTI reported on Wednesday. While three students were found to be infected by virus on July 21, two ors tested positive on Wednesday, district officials said. state government has been facing criticism from Opposition parties for holding exam despite high prevalence of COVID-19 cases in state.

state on Wednesday reported 1,038 COVID-19 cases, its first-ever single-day tally above 1,000, taking total cases reported to 15,032. 

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(With ncy inputs)