The State on Saturday registered the highest single-day spike till now with 1,103 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the cumulative case burden to 18,098, while over 1.54 lakh people are under observation.

While the steady rise in the new cases reported daily brings no cheer to the health administration, the number of active cases was stabilised by the 1,049 recoveries that were reported the same day.

Local transmission

Local transmission continues to drive the case burden in the State, with 875 out of the 1,103 cases being locally acquired infections, including 72 cases for which no epidemiological link has been found.

These cases include 21 health-care workers.

The number of active cases or patients currently under treatment in hospitals in the State is 9,420. The number of recoveries so far has been 8,613.

Five more deaths

The death toll has reached 59, with two deaths reported from Kozhikode and one each from Ernakulam, Kasaragod and Palakkad.

Capital leads

As has been the trend for the past several days, Thiruvananthapuram district reported the maximum number of cases, with locally acquired infection accounting for 229 out of the 240 cases reported.

The district also has the maximum number of active cases with 2,666 persons undergoing treatment in hospitals.

Kozhikode district, with 110 new cases, came second on the list of most number of cases, after Thiruvananthapuram. Eighty-eight people contracted the disease through local transmission.

Kasaragod has 105, Alappuzha 102, Kollam 80, Ernakulam 79, Kottayam 77, Malappuram 68, Kannur 62, Pathanamthitta 52, Idukki 40, Thrissur 36, Palakkad 35 and Wayanad 17.

Of the over 1.54 lakh people who are currently in quarantine in the State, 8,981 persons with mild COVID-19-like symptoms have been isolated in various hospitals in districts.

22,013 samples tested

The number of samples tested in the last 24 hours was 22,013.

More areas in the State have become hotspots now and the total number of hotspots now is 481.

Couple infected

Meanwhile, the 105 new cases from Kasaragod includes a bride and her groom, and 41 others who took part in their wedding ceremony held in the district on July 17.

Kasaragod has a total of 584 patients.