Today, Kerala has registered 488 new Covid positive cases. This also happened to be the biggest daily positive figure that the state has marked till date. This is the second consecutive day, when the figure has crossed the 400 mark. The number of samples that turned negative stands at 143. With this, the total number of covid cases in Kerala has reached 7,537, while the state’s total active cases have reached 3,546. A total of 3,965 people have recovered from the disease. Amongst those who have turned positive today, 167 are from overseas, while 76 came from other states.
As was the case in the previous days, the number of positive cases through transmission is increasing with the passage of each day. In the past 24 hours, the state has clocked 234 positive cases through transmission. Apart from that, Kerala has added 2 more Covid deaths. The deaths of Thiruvananthapuram native Saifuddin (66) and Ernakulam native PK Balakrishnan (79), have taken the total death toll in Kerala to 30.
The district wise breakup figure of positive cases is all follows (Cases through transmission in the bracket),
Alappuzha – 87 (51)
Thiruvananthapuram – 69 (46)
Pathanamthitta – 54 (25)
Malappuram – 51 (27)
Palakkad – 48
Ernakulam – 47 (30)
Thrissur – 29
Kannur – 19
Kasargode – 18 (7)
Kollam – 18 (7)
Kozhikode – 17 (8)
Kottayam – 15 (4)
Wayanad – 11
Idukki – 5
Number of people who have turned negative
Pathanamthitta – 43
Kollam – 26
Thrissur – 17
Malappuram – 15
Alappuzha – 11
Palakkad – 7
Thiruvananthapuram – 6
Idukki – 4
Kottayam – 6
Kozhikode – 4
Ernakulam – 3
Kannur – 1
Right now, 1,82,050 people are under observation, with the number of institutional quarantine standing at 3,694. Today, Kerala has tested a total of 12,104 samples. The results of 6,449 tests are yet to come. Today, a total of 570 people have been admitted to hospitals. Kerala, right now, has a total of 195 hotspots.