Another day of 1,000-plus cases in Kerala
61 dead, 7,998 test positive in Andhra Pradesh; Karnataka records 5,030 new cases & 97 deaths; Telangana tally up by 1,567
Kerala added 1,078 new cases to its rapidly swelling COVID19 tally on Thursday, taking the State’s cumulative number to 16,110. With active community transmission on in many parts, 845 of the new cases were locally acquired infections. No epidemiological link was known in 65 cases. Health care workers were again shown to be vulnerable, with another 32 testing positive. The State recorded five deaths on Thursday, in Kozhikode, Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Kannur, taking the State toll to 50. With 432 recoveries, there were 9,458 patients in hospitals. Total recoveries stood at 6,596. Recent intensive testing in the community unearthed many positive cases. Samples tested by the State in 24 hours went up to 22,433. Andhra Pradesh reported 61 deaths and 7,998 new cases in 24 hours, its total death toll rising to 884 and case tally to 72,711 on Thursday. On the other hand, 5,428 patients were discharged and recoveries stood at 37,555. The remaining 34,272 patients were under treatment, the Health Department said. For the first time, 58,052 samples were tested in a day, of which 32,434 were RTPCR, TrueNat and NACO tests and 25,618 Rapid Antigen Tests. The positivity rate for tests in the past day was 14% and the overall positivity rate of 14.93 lakh samples 4.87%. East Godavari reported 14 new deaths and seven deaths each were reported from Guntur and Kurnool. Srikakulam and Krishna reported six new deaths each, while Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam reported five deaths each. Similarly, West Godavari, Chittoor and Prakasam had three deaths each and Anantapur and Kadapa one death each. Karnataka was badly hit with 5,030 new cases and 97 deaths on Thursday, setting a
new record. The Health and Family Welfare department said there were 49,931 active cases and total positives stood at 80,863. Of the 97 deaths, 48 were from Bengaluru Urban raising the total to 783. As many as 1,616 people had died in the State so far. Eight deaths were reported in Mysuru, seven in Dakshina Kannada, five in Ballari, four in Belagavi. While Bengaluru Urban had 2,207 new cases, Bengaluru Rural reported 161. In Telangana, 1,567 samples tested positive taking the total cases to 50,826. Nine more people died due to COVID19, raising the death toll in the State to 447. 6,472 test positive in T.N. The number of COVID19 cases continued to surge in Tamil Nadu as another 6,472 persons tested positive on Thursday, taking the State’s overall tally to 1,92,964. Chennai’s overall tally breached the 90,000mark as it recorded 1,336 new cases. Another 5,210 persons, including 1,703 persons in Chennai and 450 in Madurai, were discharged. With this, a total of 1,36,793 persons had been discharged. A total of 52,939 persons were under treatment. Eightyeight more persons died, taking the State’s toll to 3,232. (With inputs from Vijayawada, Bengalurulu, Hyderabad and Chennai bureaus)
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