Total 167 patients under treatment

Thiruvananthapuram, April 15:  Briefing the media about the Covid-19 situation in the State, Kerala Chief Minister, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan said, “Just one fresh case of the Coronavirus infection was reported in Kerala today while the test results of seven patients under treatment came as negative.”

The lone case from Kannur district has got the infection through primary contact. Four patients from Kasargod district, two from Kozhikode district and one from Kollam district are those who have recovered from Covid-19 and tested negative.

Till date, there have been a total of 387 confirmed cases of Coronavirus infection in Kerala and 167 patients are currently under treatment in various hospitals across the State.

264 of the confirmed cases were people, who had come to Kerala from outside the State and from abroad, eight were foreign nationals and 114 were cases of local transmission.

The number of people under surveillance in the State has further come down to 97,464. Of these, 96,942 are isolated at their homes and 522 are in the isolation wards in hospitals.

86 persons were hospitalised today. So far, 16,472 samples from people with symptoms have been sent for testing and 16,002 samples have tested negative with no infection.

“In our country, the recovery rate is the highest in Kerala and 218 patients have been completely cured of the disease. There is good progress in testing and we are doing increased numbers now. But we cannot afford to give more exemptions and relaxations in the lockdown condition,” said the Chief Minister.

The CM informed that few more private hospitals in the State have offered their infrastructure including ambulances and manpower to be used as in the fight against Coronavirus, and for setting up quarantine facilities.