Express News Service KOCHI: Exactly on this day last year, the state came to know that novel coronavirus had arrived on its shores. Despite its disastrous effects, it also brought forth fighting spirit of our frontline warriors. A recap of how the state has gone through the grind and is not giving up In January 30 last year, when the first Covid-19 case in the state was reported in a student who arrived from China’s Wuhan in Thrissur, little did Keralites imagine the horrors the pandemic would unleash on them throughout the year. As nation after nation, superpowers and third world countries alike, was entrapped in the tentacles of the virus and as India went into a nationwide lockdown to keep the pandemic in check, Kerala’s robust healthcare system rose to the challenge with its frontline warriors, including doctors, nurses and support staff, battling the pandemic head on.