Kerala covid cases rise again, Reports over 20,000 new cases and 67 deaths in last 24 hrs
Amid reporting high Covid-19 cases for a few weeks now, Kerala on Sunday again reported over 20,000 more virus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of the state to 43,75,431, according to the daily health bulletin.
Along with that, the state also reported 67 more virus-related fatalities in the 24-hour period, pushing the death toll to 22,551, it added. The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) was recorded at 17.51 per cent after testing 1,15,575 samples in the last 24 hours, a state government release said.
The bulletin also said that since Saturday, 29,710 people recovered from the infection taking the total number to 41,30,065 and the number of active cases to 2,22,255. Among the 14 districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest number of cases with 2,572 followed by Thrissur 2,451, Thiruvananthapuram 1,884, Kozhikode 1,805, Kottayam 1,780, Kollam 1,687, Palakkad 1,644, Malappuram 1,546, Kannur 1,217 and Alappuzha 1,197, the release said.
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Of the new cases, 101 were health workers, 114 from outside the state and 19,251 infected through contact, with the source of the contact not being clear in 774 cases, it said. There are currently 6,03,315 people under surveillance in various districts, of whom 5,72,761 are in home or institutional quarantine and 30,554 in hospitals.
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