COVID-19 | 29,673 new cases in Kerala, test positivity rate falls to 22.22%
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Kerala reported 29,673 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, when 1,33,558 samples had been examined in 24 hours.
The test positivity rate confirmed a decline and registered 22.22%. As anticipated, 10 days after the State scaled the height of the epidemic, deaths are starting to rise. There is at all times a two to 4 weeks lag between the time the cases peak and the deaths start to peak.
On Friday, the State added 142 latest deaths to the official toll, taking the cumulative COVID-19 fatalities to 6,994.
The lively case pool of the State, which had gone up to 4.45 lakh cases on the peak of the epidemic has been declining steadily and now has 3,06,346 sufferers — a big decline from 3,17,850 cases of the day gone by. On Friday, 41,032 individuals had been reported to have recovered from their illness, taking the cumulative recoveries to 19,79,919.
However, a lot of those recoveries are reported in sufferers with delicate COVID sickness and who’re principally recovering at residence or an establishment. Hospital admissions proceed to stay excessive, indicating that sufferers with average or extreme illness are persevering with to occupy hospital beds and ICUs and that their restoration interval is extended.
On Friday, 3,524 individuals had been newly admitted to hospitals. The whole variety of hospitalised cases, which had proven a slight decline on Thursday, once more went up on Friday to 38,709.
Total ICU admissions of critically sick COVID-19 sufferers in the State in each private and non-private hospitals was 3,899, whereas the variety of these on ventilator help confirmed a slight decline at 1,492.
In Thiruvananthapuram district, the lively case pool has considerably come down to 21,963 sufferers. But it has the utmost variety of COVID sufferers in hospitals in the State at 5,998.
Among districts, Thiruvananthapuram reported the very best variety of new cases with 4,151, Malappuram 3,499, Ernakulam 3,102, Palakkad 3,040, Kollam 2,745, Thrissur 2,481, Kozhikode 2,382, Alappuzha 2,072, Kottayam 1,760, Kannur 1,410, Idukki 1,111, Pathanamthitta 878, Kasaragod 650 and Wayanad 392.
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