Total 77,482 patients under treatment
63,175 tests in last 24 hours, 63 new hotspots
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 02: Covid-19 was confirmed in 9,258 people in Kerala today as per the Minister of Health, Smt K K Shailaja. 8,274 persons were infected through contact and the source of infection of 657 was not traceable. Of those diagnosed today, 47 have returned from overseas and 184, from other states. 93 healthcare workers were among those infected. At the same time, 4,092 patients under treatment have recovered from Coronavirus today. Both the new cases and recovery figures are single-day highest to be reported.
Meanwhile, 20 recent deaths in the State were confirmed as due to Covid taking the death toll to 791. The deceased are Thankappan (82), Sasidharan (63), Abdul Aziz (52) & Shahul Hameed (66) from Thiruvananthapuram district; Faziluddin (76), Shatrughanan Achari (86), Ramesan (63), Nelson (56), Surendran (66) & M M Shefi (68) from Kollam district; Raseena (43), Neelakanthan Nair (92) & Abdul Hameed (73) from Alappuzha district; P N Shashi (68), Sugathamma (78), Sarojiniamma (81) & Sushila (54) from Kottayam district, Nirmala (74) & P V Viju (42) from Ernakulam district, and Devi (75) from Kozhikode district.
The numbers of the new positive cases district-wise are Kozhikode 1,146, Thiruvananthapuram 1,096, Ernakulam 1,042, Malappuram 1,016, Kollam 892, Thrissur 812, Palakkad 633, Kannur 625, Alappuzha 605, Kasaragod 476, Kottayam 432, Pathanamthitta 239, Idukki 136 and Wayanad 108.
The district-wise figures for the contact cases are Kozhikode 1,109, Thiruvananthapuram 956, Ernakulam 851, Malappuram 929, Kollam 881, Thrissur 807, Palakkad 441, Kannur 475, Alappuzha 590, Kasargod 451, Kottayam 421, Pathanamthitta 161, Idukki 99 and Wayanad 103.
The count of the infected healthcare workers from districts are Thiruvananthapuram 27, Kannur 23, Ernakulam 11, Kasaragod 6, Pathanamthitta 7 Kozhikode 5 each, Kottayam & Wayanad 4 each, Alappuzha 3, Kollam & Thrissur 2 each, and Malappuram 1. Three INHS personnel in Ernakulam district were also infected.
The district-wise numbers of the patients who tested negative today are Thiruvananthapuram 357, Kollam 295, Pathanamthitta 218, Alappuzha 342, Kottayam 174, Idukki 93, Ernakulam 212, Thrissur 270, Palakkad 221, Malappuram 951, Kozhikode 423, Wayanad 75, Kannur 303 and Kasaragod 158.
At present, there are 77,482 patients undergoing treatment in the State while 1,35,144 people have so far been cured of Covid.
There are currently 2,46,631 people under observation across the state, 2,15,778 under home or institutional quarantine and 30,853 in hospital isolation. 3,599 people were admitted to the hospitals today.
In the meantime, the number of tests being conducted has been increased with 63,175 samples tested in the last 24 hours. Till now, a total of 30,49,791 samples have been sent for testing, including 2,13,499 samples from high public exposure groups as part of Sentinel Surveillance.
63 new places were demarcated as hotspots today while 15 areas were excluded. There are 705 hotspots in Kerala now.