Thiruvananthapuram: The country witnessed 22,040 positive cases of 1.63,376 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The test level of the test increased to 13.49%.
Meanwhile, 117 recent deaths have been confirmed as caused by Covid, taking dead in the country to 17,328.
At the same time, 20,046 patients had recovered from the disease.
Among new cases, 20,901 cases have been infected through local transmission.
Infection contact sources cannot be tracked for 996 people.
There are 76 health care professionals among those infected, and 67 people have arrived from outside the country.
Malappuram reported the highest number of cases with 3,645, followed by thrissur (2,921), Kozhikode (2,406), Ernakulam (2,373), Palakkad (2,139), Kollam (1,547), alappuzha (1,142), Thiruvananthapuram (1,119)), Kottayam (1,077) , Kasaragod (685), Wayanad (676), Pathanamthitta (536) and Idukki (534).
So far, 32.97,834 people have recovered from Koronavirus infection in the state, even as 1,77,924 patients still undergo treatment for the same thing.
There are 4,81,157 people currently observing in various countries, where 4.51,799 are in the center of house or institutional quarantine, and 29,358 in isolation in hospitals.