Thiruvananthapuram: After recording 30,000 cases of everyday for several days, Kerala saw a gradual decline in the number of new cases since last week and on Tuesday reported 25,772 new Covid-19 infections that pushed Caseload to 42.53,298.
On September 3, the state has reported 29,322 cases after reporting more than 30,000 cases for several days and since then the number gradually decreases.
With 189 deaths today, total deaths until the date reached 21,820, said the release of the state government.
The test level (TPR) also decreased after almost 20 percent a few days ago.
On Tuesday, TPR was found 15.87 percent after testing 1,62,428 samples in the last 24 hours, according to the release.
With this, 3.26,70,564 samples have been tested until now.
Bulletin also said that since Monday, 27,320 people have recovered from infection taking total recovery to 39,93,877 and the number of active cases to 2,37,045.
Among the 14 state districts, Ernakulam recorded the highest by 3,194 cases followed by Malappuram (2,952), Kozhikode (2,669), Thrissur (2,557), Kollam (2,338), Palakkad (1,814), Thiruvananthapuram (1,686)), Kannur (1,649), Alappuzha (1,435), Pathanamthitta (1,016) and IDUKKI (925).
From new cases, 125 are health workers, 133 from outside the country and 24,253 are infected through contact with the contact source unclear in 1,261 cases.
At present there are 6,18,684 people under supervision in various districts.
Of these, 5,85,749 is located in a quarantine of a house or institutional and 32,935 in the hospital.