This article offers a cross-sectional exploration of the COVID-19 containment strategy in Kerala and highlights its initial effectiveness in the Kasaragod district, the first to record a second stage transmission in the state with a cluster of cases from 23 March 2020 onwards. Despite its underwhelming healthcare infrastructure, Kasaragod district managed to contain the transmission and record a 100 per cent recovery rate, indicating a promising model of infection control. However, the district subsequently succumbed to community-level transmission when another wave of positive cases of COVID-19 was detected among repatriated overseas citizens on 7 May 2020. The article explores the confluence of elements that allowed the initial successful recovery from a second stage transmission and then examines the factors that later led to community-level transmission. Given the close connections of Kerala to other parts of the world through migration, the article illustrates how precariously the local is now part of the global.

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Covid-19，本地和全球：喀拉拉邦的教训

本文对喀拉拉邦的 COVID-19 遏制策略进行了横截面探索，并强调了其在 Kasaragod 地区的初步有效性，该地区是第一个从 2020 年 3 月 23 日起在该州记录第二阶段传播病例的地区。尽管医疗保健基础设施不足，但 Kasaragod 区仍设法控制了传播并记录了 100% 的康复率，这表明感染控制模式很有前景。然而，当 2020 年 5 月 7 日在遣返的海外公民中发现另一波 COVID-19 阳性病例时，该地区随后屈服于社区层面的传播。本文探讨了促成从第二阶段传播中初步成功恢复的因素的汇合，然后检查了后来导致社区级传播的因素。鉴于喀拉拉邦通过移民与世界其他地区的密切联系，这篇文章说明了当地现在是多么不稳定。