Thiruvananthapuram: More than 30,000 new cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19) were reported in the state in the last 24 hours with a test level of test (TPR) of 17.63%.
The number of local bodies that have a weekly infection population ratio (WIPR) is more than 7% also increasing.
There are more than 4,000 such wards in 794 local bodies in the state.
The state recorded 30,196 positive cases as 1,71,295 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
A total of 181 deaths were recently confirmed as caused by Covid-19, taking dead in the country to 22,002.
At the same time, 27,579 patients have recovered from disease and currently there are 2,39,480 patients undergoing treatment.
So far, 40.21,456 people have recovered from Koronavirus infection in the state.
Among new cases reported on Wednesday 28.617 people were infected through local deployment.
Infection contact sources cannot be tracked for 1,259 people.
There are 130 health care professionals among those infected and 190 people have arrived from outside the country.
Thrissur reported the highest number of cases — 3,832, followed by Ernakulam (3,611), Kozhikode (3,058), Thiruvananthapuram (2,900), Kollam (2,717), Malappuram (2,580), Palakkad (2,214), alappuzha (1,645), Kannur (1,433 ), Idukki (1,333), Pathanamthitta (1,181), Wayanad (894) and Kasaragod (510).
The negative-tested break-up of the disease is as follows: Thiruvananthapuram 1,646, Kollamthitta 1,191, Alappuzha 1,966, Kottayam 2,198, Idukki 907, Ernakulam 2,648, Thrissur 2,698, Palakkad 2.019, Kozhikode 3,265, Wayanad 1,222, Kannur 2,003 and Kasaragod 472.
There were a total of 6.08.228 people currently observing in various districts where 5,75,411 were in their homes or institutional quarantine centers and 32,817 in isolation in hospitals.
In accordance with the population ratio of different weekly infections in 794 local bodies have WIPR more than 7%.
Among them, 692 wards were in urban areas and 3,416 were in rural areas.
Strict locking restrictions have been applied in this ward.