Today Kerala logs 19,760 fresh Covid cases; 194 fatalities, 24,117 recoveries

Thiruvananthapuram: In Kerala today, 19,760 people have been confirmed as covid-19. Over the past 24 hours, 1,30,594 samples have been tested. The test positivity rate is 15.13. A total of 1,99,26,522 samples have been tested so far, including a routine sample, sentinel sample, CB Nat, Truant, POCTPCR, RT-LAMP and antigen testing.

Positive, District Wise

Malappuram 2874

Thiruvananthapuram 2345

Palakkad 2178

Kollam 2149

Ernakulam 2081

Thrissur 1598

Alappuzha 1557

Kozhikode 1345

Kottayam 891

Kannur 866

Pathanamthitta 694

Idukki 462

Kasargod 439

Wayanad 281

In the last 24 hours, no one from the UK, South Africa and Brazil has confirmed the Covid-19. So far, 126 people from the UK (116), South Africa (9) and Brazil (1) have been confirmed by The Covid 19. Of these, 125 were tested negative. A total of 11 cases were found of the genetic variant virus. Today, it was confirmed that 194 deaths in recent days were caused by Covid-19. This brings the total death toll to 9009.

The disease was infected through contact. The source of contact with 1189 people is unclear. Malappuram 2800, Thiruvananthapuram 2246, Palakkad 1282, Kollam 2145, Ernakulam 2017, Thrissur 1586, Alappuzha 1548, Kozhikode 1331, Kottayam 849, Kannur 785, Pathanamthitta 677, Idukki 448, Kasargod 426 and Wayanad 253 were infected through contact. Seventy-four health workers were infected. Health workers like Kannur 15, Ernakulam 13, Kozhikode 8, Palakkad 7, Pathanamthitta 6, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur 5 each, Kollam, Wayanad 4 each, Alappuzha, Idukki 3 each and Malappuram 1 were infected. 24,117 people who were being treated for the disease have recovered.

Negative, District Wise

Thiruvananthapuram 2023

Kollam432

Pathanamthitta 982

Alappuzha 2014

Kottayam 1310

Idukki 741

Ernakulam 2424

Thrissur 2157

Palakkad 2979

Malappuram 4170

Kozhikode 2375

Wayanad 228

Kannur 1502

Kasargod 780

With this, 2,02,426 people have been diagnosed with the disease and are now being treated. 23,34,502 people have so far recovered from covid. There are now 7,64,008 people under observation in various districts of the state. Of these, 7,26,515 are under observation in the house/institutional quarantine and 37,493 in hospitals. 2684 people have been newly admitted to the hospital. Today there are 2 new hotspots. No area is excluded from the hotspot. There are currently 885 hotspots.