Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government on Tuesday decided to restore Saturdays as working days, wherever applicable.”All employees are instructed to report for duty on Saturdays accordingly,” an order issued by the Disaster Management Department said.

In view of the relaxation in Covid-19 restrictions, the state government also decided to reinstate the biometric entry system from September 16 for government, semi-government and public sector undertaking employees. It said that the employees can use their identity cards to access the biometric entry system.

The biometric entry system was stopped since March last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. On Monday, Kerala had reported 15,058 fresh Covid-19 cases and 99 deaths which pushed the total infections to 43,90,489 and the death toll to 22,650.