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.