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Kerala’s COVID-19 case graph notched up another 8,764 new cases on Tuesday, when the State examined 48,253 samples, taking the cumulative case burden of the State to 3,03,896.
The final one lakh cases have been added on to the cumulative case burden of the State in simply 12 days. Kerala additionally reported 7,273 recoveries on Tuesday.
The check positivity price has shot up to 18.16%, defying all makes an attempt of the State to hold illness transmission down and the TPR under 10 %
Kerala’s cumulative case burden first crossed the one lakh mark on September 11 with cases build up slowly with the third wave of the epidemic from mid-May and taking up 4 months to attain the determine of 1 lakh.
However, the following one lakh cases have been added on to the cumulative case burden in simply 21 days and on October 1, and the following one lakh cases added in simply 12 days.
Active cases
With the full recoveries touching 2,07,357 cases, the variety of lively cases within the State at current is 95,407. Of these case, 707 sufferers are critically unwell and being handled in ICUs while183 sufferers are on ventilator help
The COVID toll of the State reached 1,046, with 21 extra deaths being added on to the official record of fatalities. Kozhikode accounted for eight of those deaths, 4 every in Alappuzha and Ernakulam, three in Malappuram and one every in Kannur and Kasaragod.
Of the brand new cases reported on Tuesday, 8,643 cases (98.6%) are regionally acquired infections, which embrace 528 cases wherein no epidemiological hyperlink may very well be established. It additionally consists of 76 cases of health-care employees who contracted the virus.
Drop in capital
Among districts, Thiruvananthapuram, which had been constantly reporting the best variety of cases within the State fore over three months or extra, has now fallen to the sixth place with the case graph surging in all different districts.
The case graph of Thiruvananthapuram has lastly begun to present indicators of plateauing.
On Tuesday, Malappuram topped all different districts with 1,139 cases, Ernakulam 1,122, Kozhikode 1,113, Thrissur 1,010, Kollam 907, Thiruvananthapouram 777, Palakkad 606, Alappuzha 488, Kottayam 476, Kannur 370, Kasaragod 323, Pathanamthitta 244, Wayanad 110, and Idukki 79 cases.
The variety of hotspots within the State at current is 660.
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