Total 67,061 patients under treatment
63,682 tests in last 24 hours
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 30: 8,830 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Kerala today while 3,536 patients under treatment have recovered. Both are the highest single-day count reported so far. Of those diagnosed today, 7,695 are cases of local transmission and the contact source for 784 was unknown. 58 are returnees from foreign countries and 164 from other states. 123 healthcare workers are among those infected.
Meanwhile, 23 recent deaths were confirmed as due to Covid taking the death toll in the State to 742. The deceased are Vasantha (68), Murali (55), Nataraja Sundaram (91), Sasidharan Nair (77), Abu Tahir (68) & Padmakumar (49) from Thiruvananthapuram district; Thankamma Varghese (75), Shari Rajan (47) & P Omana (63) from Alappuzha district, Sasidharan (65) from Pathanamthitta district, Anamma (65) from Kottayam district, Leela (82) from Ernakulam district; Lakshmi (75), Ammini (58), Gopalakrishnan (78), B C Krishnadas (55), Thankappan (68), Rafeeq (35), Ramankutty (80) & Mohanan (61) from Palakkad district, Prema (51) & Zainuddin (63) from Malappuram district, and Parameswara Acharya (68) from Kasargod district.
The district-wise figures of those who tested positive today for Coronavirus are Ernakulam 1,056, Thiruvananthapuram 986, Malappuram 977, Kozhikode 942, Kollam 812, Thrissur 808, Alappuzha 679, Palakkad 631, Kannur 519, Kottayam 442, Kasargod 321, Pathanamthitta 286, Wayanad 214 and Idukki 157.
The district-wise numbers for the people infected through contact are Ernakulam 896, Thiruvananthapuram 835, Malappuram 877, Kozhikode 910, Kollam 808, Thrissur 781, Alappuzha 658, Palakkad 413, Kannur 318, Kottayam 422, Kasaragod 286, Pathanamthitta 195, Wayanad 196 and Idukki 105.
The count of the infected healthcare workers from the districts are Kannur 33, Thiruvananthapuram 32, Kasaragod 13, Kottayam 11, Ernakulam 6, Pathanamthitta & Wayanad 5 each, Kollam & Thrissur 4 each, Alappuzha & Palakkad 3 each, and Malappuram & Kozhikode 2 each. Six INHS personnel in Ernakulam district were also infected.
The statistics for the patients who tested negative today are Thiruvananthapuram 379, Kollam 295, Pathanamthitta 204, Alappuzha 302, Kottayam 128, Idukki 21, Ernakulam 263, Thrissur 155, Palakkad 206, Malappuram 601, Kozhikode 589, Wayanad 51, Kannur 182 and Kasaragod 160.
At present, there are 67,061 patients undergoing treatment in the State and 1,28,224 people have so far been cured of Covid.
There are a total of 2,40,884 persons under observation across the state, 2,11,294 at their homes or institutional quarantine centres and 29,590 in hospitals. 3,468 people were admitted to the hospitals today.
At the same time, the number of tests being conducted has been increased with 63,682 samples being tested during the last 24 hours. Till now, a total of 29,25,734 samples have been sent for testing, including 2,04,349 samples from high public exposure groups as part of Sentinel Surveillance.
There are 660 hotspots in Kerala now.