70% of new Kerala cases due to local spread
Two more die in the State, infection tally crosses 10,000; Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh together add 6,762 cases, 144 deaths
Kerala crossed the 10,000 cases milestone in the COVID19 pandemic with a cumulative case burden of 10,271 on Thursday. The State reported 722 fresh cases, 501 of them from local transmission, or almost 70%. Active cases stood at 5,372 and recoveries at 4,862. A big chunk of new cases were from the community
clusters along the coastal belt and 34 cases with no epidemiological link were reported. Thiruvananthapuram accounted for 339 out of the 722 fresh cases. The number of active cases in the district was 1,279. Two deaths were reported on Thursday, at Kannur and Thrissur, taking the State’s toll to 37. Andhra Pradesh reported over 2,000 fresh cases and 40 deaths in a single day taking the tally to 38,044 and death toll to 492.
On Thursday morning, the State recorded 40 COVID19 deaths and 2,593 fresh cases, another singleday peak. The Health Department bulletin said 1,015 more patients were discharged and total recoveries rose to 19,393, while 18,159 patients were being treated. Most of the new deaths occurred in East Godavari and
Prakasam, with eight deaths each; Chittoor witnessed five deaths and Kadapa four. Anantapur, Guntur, Nellore and Visakhapatnam witnessed three deaths each and Kurnool, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram reported one death each. The mortality rate was 1.29%. No new foreign returnee cases were reported, but nine infections were in those from other States. Also, 22,304 samples tested in the past day. Karnataka, four days after crossing 40,000 cases, had a tally of 51,422. A record 4,169 people tested positive on Thursday. The death toll touched 1,032 as the State reported 104 new fatalities. This was apart from six nonCOVID deaths. 69 more die inT.N. Chennai along with six of the northern districts reported more than half of the 4,549
COVID19 cases on Thursday. The majority of the remaining cases were in the southern districts. This was the second time this week that the daily COVID19 count exceeded 4,500. The fresh cases took the overall tally to 1,56,369. Another 5,106 persons were discharged on Thursday, while 69 persons died. With this, 46,714 persons were under treatment, while persons discharged stood at 1,07,416 and the toll was 2,236. In Chennai, 1,157 persons tested positive for COVID19. There was a rise in cases in many of the northern districts with Tiruvallur leading the count with 526 new cases. In the last 24 hours, 45,888 samples were tested in the State. (With inputs from Vijayawada, Bengaluru and Chennai bureaus)
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