Thiruvananthapuram: After recording less than 30,000 Covid-19 cases since last Friday, Kerala on Wednesday reported 30,196 new, pushing the total infection at 42,83,494.
The southern state also reported 181 deaths, which took the total deaths until now to 22.001, said government liberation.
The level of testicitivity test (TPR), which witnessed a gradual decline and has been dipped below 16 percent, up to 17.63 percent on Wednesday after testing 1.71,295 samples in the last 24 hours.
With this, 3,28,41,859 samples have been tested until now, the release said.
Bulletin also said that since Tuesday, 27,579 people recovered from infection took the total number to 40.21.456 and the number of active cases to 2,39,480.
Among the 14 districts, Thrissur recorded the highest number of cases with 3,832 followed by Ernakulam (3,611), Kozhikode (3,058), Thiruvananthapuram (2,900), Kollam (2,717), Malappuram (2,288), Kottayam (2,214), alappuzha (1,645), Kannur (1,433), Idukki (1,333) and Pathanamthitta (1,181), said the release.
From new cases, 130 are health workers, 190 from outside the country and 28,617 were infected through contacts, with an unclear contact source in 1,259 cases, he said.
At present there are 6.08.228 people under supervision in various districts, including 5,75,411 in the house or institutional quarantine and 32,817 in hospitals.
Kerala Log 30.196 Covid-19 Cases Fresh, 181 deaths
