<span style="color: #222222;">As Kerala continues to report a spike in Covid cases, the State Govt has decided to enforce Covid-19 protocol more strictly.<br />''<br />''Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the recent spike in cases is due to lowering of vigil. Accordingly strong measures will be taken for stringent implementation of Covid guidelines and the focus in all districts would be to contain the test positivity rate, which is a measure of virus spread, below 10.<br />''<br />''He said that the health department will use the RT-PCR test to confirm that a person is cured of Covid-19 even if he/she tests negative in the antigen test.The decision was taken after it was found that antigen tests gave too many false negatives.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile the State Tourism sector will open up from Oct 15th in phased manner adhering to Covid 19 protocols. Presently  87, 738, active covid cases are there in Kerala.</span><br />