Covid-19: 41,000 new cases in Kerala, 4.1 lakh in total

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Active cases keep rising in the state and on Saturday it reached 4,17,101 with 41,971 fresh cases of Covid-19 added to the list.
The test positivity rate also increased to 28.25% after1,48,546 samples were tested in 24 hours. To date, the state has tested 1,69,09,361 samples. The recovery count on the day stood at 27,456 taking the total number of persons cured of the infection in the state to 14,43,633.
Meanwhile, 64 deaths that occurred in the last few days were confirmed as Covid-19-related taking the toll to 5,747.
Among the new cases, 38,662 were infected through local spread while the contact sources of 2,795 new patients remain unknown. At least 387 recent arrivals in the state were also among the infected on the day.
Ernakulam reported the highest number of cases, 5,492 followed by Thiruvananthapuram, 4,560, Malappuram, 4,558, Thrissur, 4,230, Kozhikode, 3,981, Palakkad, 3,216, Kannur, 3,090, Kollam, 2,838, Alappuzha, 2,433, Kottayam, 2,395, Kasaragod, 1,749, Wayanad, 1,196, Pathanamthitta, 1,180 and Idukki, 1,053.
The district-wise number of infections through local contacts: Ernakulam, 5,305, Thiruvananthapuram, 4,271, Malappuram, 4,360, Thrissur, 4,204, Kozhikode, 3,864, Palakkad, 1,363, Kannur, 2,794, Kollam, 2,827, Alappuzha, 2,423, Kottayam, 2,244, Kasaragod, 1,706, Wayanad, 1,145, Pathanamthitta, 1,137 and Idukki, 1,019.
Of the 127 healthcare workers who were infected on the day, the most were in Kannur, 40 followed by Kasaragod, 18, Ernakulam, 17, Thrissur and Wayanad, nine each, Thiruvananthapuram and Pathanamthitta, eight each, Kollam, six, Palakkad, five, Kozhikode, three, Idukki, two, and Kottayam and Malappuram, one each.
The district-wise split of recoveries on the day: Thiruvananthapuram, 2,403, Kollam, 1,412, Pathanamthitta, 478, Alappuzha, 772, Kottayam, 1,404, Idukki, 316, Ernakulam, 4,052, Thrissur, 1,686, Palakkad, 3,487, Malappuram, 3,388, Kozhikode, 4,991, Wayanad, 591, Kannur, 1,856 and Kasaragod, 620.
There are 10,81,007 persons under observation in the state, of whom 10,50,745 are at their homes or institutional quarantine centres and 30,262 are in isolation at hospitals.
With the inclusion of four places, the number of hotspots in the state has increased to 788.