Total 95 patients under treatment

Four new hotspots today

Total 84 hotspots

Thiruvananthapuram, May 03: In a day of much relief to the State, no fresh case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Kerala today. This was informed by the Kerala Minister of Health & Social Justice, Smt K K Shailaja in a press release. Meanwhile, one more patient has recovered from the Coronavirus infection. A native of Kasargod who was under treatment in Kannur district has tested negative today. The total number of recovered cases in Kerala is 401 and 95 patients are still under treatment in different hospitals in the State.

There are 21,720 persons are under surveillance in different districts across the State – 21,332 under observation at their homes and 388 quarantined in hospitals. 63 people were hospitalised today.

Till now, 32,217 samples have been sent for testing and the results of 31,611 samples have shown no infection. As part of sentinel surveillance, 2,391 samples were collected separately from people in the high-risk group – healthcare workers, migrant labourers and those with higher public contacts, and tested. Out of these, 1,683 samples have tested negative.

Four new places in the State were declared as hotspots today – one each in Wayanad and Idukki district, and two in Ernakulam district. Presently, there are 84 hotspots in Kerala.