Thiruvananthapuram: After reporting more than 30,000 cases for four consecutive days, Kerala on Sunday recorded 29,836 fresh infections that pushed total infection in the country to 40.07.408.
The level of participant test rose closer to 20 percent and with 75 deaths, the number of deaths increased to 20,541, the release of the state government.
22,088 people have recovered from infection since Saturday, taking total recovery to 37,73,754 and the number of active cases to 2,12,566, the release said.
In the last 24 hours, 1,51,670 samples were tested and TPR was found 19.67 percent.
So far, 3.12,75,313 the crore sample has been tested, he said.
Among the districts, Thrissur recorded the highest with 3,965 cases followed by Kozhikode (3,548), Malappuram (3,190), Ernakulam (3,178), Palakkad (2,816), Kollam (2,266), Thiruvananthapuram (1,853), Kannur (1,853)), alappuzha ( 1,498), Pathanamthitta (1,178), Wayanad (1,002) and IDUKKI 962.
Of new cases, 98 are health workers, 229 from outside the country and 28,372 infected through contacts, with the contact source unclear in 1,137 cases, the release said.
At present there are 5,33,817 people under supervision in various districts.
Of these, 5.03,762 was in the quarantine of a house or institutional and 30,055 in the hospital.