2,884 new cases in State
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The dip in testing over the weekend by almost half the variety of exams carried out usually on week days, mirrored in the COVID case figures of the State on Monday.
Kerala reported 2,884 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday when testing carried out over the previous 24 hours fell to 39,463 samples. However, the check positivity price remained kind of fixed at 7.31%. The State’s cumulative case burden, which crossed the ten lakh mark on Sunday rose to 10,07,019 cases.
Of the 39,463 exams carried out by the State, 23,686 had been speedy antigen assay whereas the RT-PCR exams dropped to 13,400. Other molecular diagnostic exams like Truenat, CBNAAT, constituted the remaining exams.
With the State reporting 5,073 recoveries on Monday, the energetic case pool of the State, which has been dropping steadily, now has 61,281 individuals.
The cumulative recoveries reported in Kerala until date has risen to 9,41,471.
On Monday,13 extra deaths had been added to the official record of COVID fatalities, taking the State’s COVID toll ever because the pandemic started to three,998 deaths.
Thrissur and Kollam reported three deaths every, Kannur two, whereas Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad reported one demise every.
As on Monday, official reviews mentioned that the variety of critically ailing COVID sufferers being handled in ICUs in varied hospitals throughout the State was 804 with 232 of them requiring ventilator assist
Among districts, Malappuram reported the utmost variety of new cases with 560 cases, Ernakulam 393, Kozhikode 292, Kottayam 289, Alappuzha 254, Thiruvananthapuram 248, Kollam 192, Thrissur 173, Kannur 135, Pathanamthitta 107, Palakkad 83, Wayanad 70, Idukki 44,and Kasaragod 44 cases
With two extra travellers from UK testing optimistic for COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours, a complete of 84 individuals who reached the State from UK since mid-December have examined optimistic for COVID-19. Official reviews mentioned that 70 of them have since examined adverse.
So far, solely 10 individuals had examined optimistic for the virus variant B.1.1.7 first reported in UK and mentioned to be extremely transmissible.
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