Thirteen COVID-19 cases each were reported in Kollam and Kottayam districts on Monday. The persons who tested positive in Kottayam included six persons who landed from abroad and six who returned from other States. A health worker contracted the infection through contact while in home quarantine with her daughter and granddaughter.

The foreign returnees are a 50-year-old Vaikom native, a 57-year-old woman, a 25-year-old man from Ramapuram, a 65-year-old Koottikkal native, and a 43-year-old Paippad native, all of who came from Kuwait, and a 59-year-old woman from Cheeranchira who came from Muscat on June 19. The other patients are a 38-year-old from Thrikkodithanam, a 19-year-old woman from Thengana, a 39-year-old Moolavattam native, his 35-year-old wife, a 34-year-old woman from Ezhacherry, her four-year-old daughter, and her 53-year-old mother. Of this, the first three came from New Delhi while three others came from Mumbai.

A 23-year-old from Koruthodu, a 58-year-old from Perumbayikkad, a 36-year-old from Nedumkunnam, and a woman from Pathanamthitta were cured.

In Kollam

In Kollam, a staff nurse from Mumbai, tested positive on the day. Among the other patients, 10 are from abroad, including eight from Kuwait and two from Saudi Arabia. The remaining two came from Chennai. Two of them were in institutional quarantine and others in home quarantine. The new cases are from Puthur, Velyam, Elamadu, Pattazhi, Mynagappally, Oachira, Poruvazhi, Perinad, Kallumthazham, Perumon, Karunagappally, Alumkadavu, and Ilambal.