Kerala on Saturday witnessed a surge in COVID-19 cases. The state reported 1,544 new cases, taking the number of active patients to 7,972. The state health minister Veena George has called for a high-level meeting to assess the situation.
For the past five days, Kerala has been reporting over 1,000 coronavirus cases each day and a total of 48 COVID-related deaths.
“Closely monitoring the situation analytically. No new variants. It is the omicron variant so far. The health department is doing the genomic and spike protein sequencing,” the Minister told PTI.
The high-level meeting noted that Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam districts were having the most number of cases and the district authorities were instructed to conduct more tests.