So far 40,21,456 people have been cured of coronavirus in Kerala. (file)
Thiruvananthapuram:
After registering less than 30,000 cases since last Friday, Kerala reported 30,196 new cases on Wednesday, taking the total infections in the state to 42,83,494.
A government release said that 181 people have also died in the southern state, taking the total death toll to 22,001 so far.
The test positivity rate (TPR), which was seeing a gradual decline and fell below 16 per cent, rose to 17.63 per cent on Wednesday after 1,71,295 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
With this, 3,28,41,859 samples have been tested so far.
The bulletin also said that 27,579 people have recovered from the infection since Tuesday, taking the total number to 40,21,456 and the number of active cases to 2,39,480.
Among 14 districts, Thrissur reported the highest number of 3,832 cases, followed by Ernakulam (3,611), Kozhikode (3,058), Thiruvananthapuram (2,900), Kollam (2,717), Malappuram (2,580), Palakkad (2,288), Kottayam (2,214) Huh. , Alappuzha (1,645), Kannur (1,433), Idukki (1,333) and Pathanamthitta (1,181), the release said.
Of the new cases, 130 were health workers, 190 from outside the state and 28,617 were infected through contact, in 1,259 cases the source of contact was not clear, it said.
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