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142 more succumb to infection, 3,524 hospitalised
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A drone being used to sanitise the Sakthan bus stand in Thrissur on Friday. | Photo Credit:
K.K. Najeeb
142 more succumb to infection, 3,524 hospitalised
Kerala reported 29,673 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, when 1,33,558 samples were tested in 24 hours.
The test positivity rate showed a decline and registered 22.22%. As expected, 10 days after the State scaled the peak of the epidemic, deaths are beginning to rise. There is always a two to four weeks lag between the time the cases peak and the deaths begin to peak.
On Friday, the State added 142 recent deaths to the official toll, taking the cumulative COVID-19 fatalities to 6,994.
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The southern state has the third highest COVID-19 infections in the country with 19.67 lakh cases, and still has only 4.24 lakh active cases, or 22 per cet and lowest mortality rate at 0.3 per cent
In the highest single day spike, Kerala on Wednesday reported 41,953 new COVID-19 cases, while 23,106 people were cured of the infection, pushing the caseload to 17,43,932 and recoveries to 13.62 lakh, the state government said. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said in view of the rise in the cases, more stringent measures will have to be taken to curb the surge in the state where severe lockdown-like restrictions were already in force. The toll mounted to 5,565 with 58 more deaths. Active cases now stood at 3,75,658, while the test positivity rate (TPR) was 25.69. Ernakulam district topped with 6,466 new cases followed by Kozhikode (5,078), Malappuram (3,932), Thrissur (3,705), Thiruvananthapuram (3,267) and Kottayam (3,174).