As governments around the world scrambled to respond to the pandemic, unlikely examples of relative success have emerged. There’s New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern locked down early in February, after one confirmed death. There’s Slovakia, where President Zuzana Caputova has matched her masks to her outfits in public, setting an example for citizens. And then there’s Kerala, a small state in the south of India, which has been governed by a coalition of left-wing parties since the Sixties.
Kerala had one of the earliest confirmed cases of Covid-19 in January, but has managed to avoid the death tolls and infection rates that have come to characterise other states in India (and around the world). In fact, for weeks, India’s coronavirus case count held steady at three, because the three cases were in Kerala and Kerala had so effectively contained the virus.
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