Total 39,285 patients under treatment

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 21: 2,910 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Kerala today while 3,022 patients under treatment for the same have recovered. This is the highest number of recoveries to be reported on any single day so far. Of those diagnosed today, 2,653 people were infected through contact and the contact source of 313 was unknown. 36 of them have come back from overseas and 133 from other states. 88 healthcare workers were also infected.

18 recent deaths in the State were confirmed as due to Covid taking the death toll to 553. Moosa (72), Kamalakshi (69), Zubaida (60) Abbas (63) Devaki (83), Muhammad Kutty (82), Abdullah (65) & Khadeeja (85) from Malappuram district, Mariappan (70) from Palakkad district; P Aisha (65), Gangadharan (70) & V K Asiya (70) from Kannur district, Damodaran Nair (80) & Pathumuthu (59) from Palakkad district and Somasekaran (73), Bhagirathi Amma (82), Ramani (65) & Suresh Babu (57) from Thiruvananthapuram district, are the deceased.

The district-wise figures for the positive cases are Thiruvananthapuram 533, Kozhikode 376, Malappuram 349, Kannur 314, Ernakulam 299, Kollam 195, Thrissur 183, Palakkad 167, Kottayam 156, Alappuzha 112, Kasargod 110, Idukki 82, Wayanad 18 and Pathanamthitta 16.

The count for the contact cases from the districts are Thiruvananthapuram 497, Kozhikode 340, Malappuram 336, Ernakulam 278, Kannur 262, Kollam 183, Thrissur 176, Palakkad 157, Kottayam 148, Alappuzha 104, Kasaragod 101, Idukki 45, and Wayanad & Pathanamthitta 13 each.

The district-wise numbers for the infected healthcare workers are Thiruvananthapuram 31, Kannur 25, Ernakulam 12, Kollam 8, Malappuram 6, Pathanamthitta & Thrissur 2 each and Palakkad & Kasaragod 1 each.

The count of patients who turned negative today from the districts are Thiruvananthapuram 519, Kollam 243, Pathanamthitta 79, Alappuzha 234, Kottayam 136, Idukki 37, Ernakulam 297, Thrissur 140, Palakkad 171, Malappuram 486, Kozhikode 419, Wayanad 46, Kannur 39 and Kasaragod 176.

Till now, 98,724 people have been cured of Covid in the state and at present, there are 39,285 patients undergoing treatment for Coronavirus.

A total of 2,18,907 persons are under observation across the state, 1,93,129 at their homes or institutional quarantine centres and 25,778 in hospitals. 2,681 people were hospitalised today.

25,848 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. A total of 24,50,599 samples have so far been sent for testing, including 1,96,191 samples from high public exposure groups as part of Sentinel Surveillance.

13 new places were declared as hotspots today while 12 areas were excluded from the list. Presently, there are 639 hotspots in Kerala.