Total 123 patients under treatment

Thiruvananthapuram, April 28: Four new cases of Coronavirus infection were confirmed in Kerala today – three from Kannur district and one in Kasargod district. Two of them have come back from overseas and two are cases of local transmission. At the same time, four patients under treatment for Covid-19 have recovered and tested negative, two each from Kannur district and Kasargod districts. This was announced by Kerala Chief Minister, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan during his daily media briefing about the Covid situation in the State.

Till date, 485 cases of Coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Kerala and 123 patients are under treatment in various hospitals in the State.

Across the State, 20,773 persons are under surveillance with 20,255 under quarantine at their homes and 518 isolated in hospitals. 151 people were hospitalised today. Overall, 23,980 samples have been tested and 23,277 samples have tested negative with no infection.

875 samples from people in the high-risk group of healthcare workers, migrant labourers and those with higher community contacts were tested and so far, 801 samples have so far tested negative. Further, as part of widespread checking, 3,101 samples were tested across 14 labs and 2,682 results were negative. 391 results are awaited while 25 samples would be retested.
The Chief Minister also informed that three panchayats in Idukki district including Munnar, one panchayat and a municipality in Kottayam district, and one panchayat each in Malappuram and Palakkad districts have been declared as hotspots. This takes the total number of hotspots in the State to 100. “Based on the experiences of Kottayam and Idukki, we need to rethink and review the lockdown situation and decided on the further course by May 03.”