Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala reported 5,420 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He was addressing the media after a coronavirus meeting here.
5,149 recoveries were reported in the state on Tuesday. 59,983 samples were tested in the past 24-hours. 24 deaths due to Covid were also confirmed by NIV Alappuzha. With this, the death toll in the state due to coronavirus rose to 2,095.
So far, 58,92,900 samples, including those collected from priority groups as part of sentinel surveillance, were sent for testing. Test positivity rate is 9.04.
The district-wise statistics of positive cases are: Malappuram – 852, Ernakulam – 570, Thrissur – 556, Kozhikode – 541, Kollam – 462, Kottayam – 461, Palakkad – 453, Alappuzha – 390, Thiruvananthapuram – 350, Kannur – 264, Pathanamthitta – 197, Idukki – 122, Wayanad – 103 and Kasaragod – 99.
4,693 persons contracted the virus through contact out of which the infection source of 592 is unknown. Out of the new patients, 83 had returned from outside the state.
The district-wise statistics of contact cases are: Malappuram – 796, Ernakulam – 447, Thrissur – 542, Kozhikode – 487, Kollam – 459, Kottayam – 459, Palakkad – 234, Alappuzha – 372, Thiruvananthapuram – 265, Kannur – 209, Pathanamthitta – 145, Idukki – 93, Wayanad – 92 and Kasaragod – 93.
52 health workers also tested positive for COVID-19. Among them, 14 are from Ernakulam, 6 each are from Malappuram and Kozhikode, 5 each are from Thrissur and Kannur, 4 are from Pathanamthitta, 3 are from Thiruvananthapuram, 2 each are from Kasaragod, Palakkad and Kollam, 1 each is from Alappuzha, Kottayam and Wayanad.
The district-wise recoveries are: Thiruvananthapuram – 441, Kollam – 97, Pathanamthitta – 100, Alappuzha – 254, Kottayam – 463, Idukki – 49, Ernakulam – 450, Thrissur – 924, Palakkad – 443, Malappuram – 617, Kozhikode – 782, Wayanad – 111, Kannur – 317 and Kasaragod – 101.
There are 64,412 active Coronavirus cases in Kerala while 5,05,238 have recovered. As many as 3,14,752 are under observation. Among them, 2,98,902 are in home/institutional quarantine while 15,850 are in hospitals. 1,489 were admitted to hospitals on Tuesday.
4 new Covid hotspots were identified in the state on Tuesday while 4 regions were removed from the list. There are a total of 556 hotspots in the state.
