267 new cases, 446 recoveries in Kozhikode
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Kozhikode district reported more COVID-19 recoveries than new infections on Tuesday when 267 people newly tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 446 people were discharged from first-line treatment centres and hospitals.
According to the District Medical Officer, there were 259 locally acquired infections and the source of infection of four others is not known. Kozhikode Corporation accounted for 100 cases of local transmission of the infection, and Chathamangalam reported 15 such cases. As many as 6,460 samples were tested and the daily test positivity rate is 4.13%. The active case load from the district now is 4,180.
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The Chautauqua County Department of Health reported another COVID-related death on Wednesday, marking 46 to date during the pandemic and six in the last week.
The county also recorded 67 new COVID cases, of which 21 involve people living in the Dunkirk zip code, six in Fredonia, 12 in Jamestown and five each in Silver Creek and Falconer. Several municipalities also had between one and three new cases, according to information collected for Tuesday and released Wednesday by health officials.
There have been 5,198 confirmed cases of the virus in the county, with 695 currently considered active. In addition, 42 people with the virus were in the hospital, unchanged from information released Tuesday, as well as 2,317 people in quarantine.