Kochi: Kerala on Saturday recorded 7,427 new Covid-19 cases and 62 deaths, taking infection counted to 49,61,490 and the death toll became 31,514.
The Minister of Health of Veena George said 7,166 people were restored from the current disease, pushing total recovery in the country to 48.50,742, while 70,709 samples were tested in the last 24 hours and there were 115 wards in 77 local government agencies that had a weekly infection population ratio on over ten percent.
“From 78,624 cases of Covid-19 active in countries only 8.2 percent of patients were hospitalized,” Minister said in the release.
Among the districts, Thiruvananthapuram recorded the highest number of cases in the country – 1.001, followed by Kozhikode with 997 cases and Ernakulam with 862 cases.
The minister said about those found infected today, 55 reached the country from outside the interim 7,069 contracted disease from their contacts.
The source of 250 infection has not been traced and 53 health workers also among those infected.
At present, there are 2,75,185 people in observations 7,350 are in the isolation path of various hospitals.
The Minister also informed that 94.7 percent (2,52,96,660) of the targeted population in the state received the first dose of vaccines, while 50.9 percent (1,36,05,863) of the targeted population received the dose.