Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala recorded 18,257 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, pushing the caseload to 12,39,424.
As many as 4,565 people were cured of the infection, taking the total recoveries to 11,40,486.
The active cases touched 93,686, Health Minister K K Shailaja said in a press release.
In the last 24 hours, 1,08,898 samples were tested and the test positivity rate was 16.77 per cent.
As part of the mass testing drive 3,00,971 samples were collected from various districts on Friday and Saturday.
With 25 deaths being reported on Tuesday, the state's death toll has risen to 4,929.
Of the positive cases, 67 were health workers, while 269 had come from outside the state and 16,762 infected through contact. The source of infection of 1,159 among them is unknown.
No UK returnee has tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.
District-wise breakup of today's positive cases:
Ernakulam - 2,835 (contact cases – 2,741)
Kozhikode - 2,560 (2,512)
Thrissur - 1,780 (1,747)
Kottayam - 1,703 (1,530)
Malappuram - 1,677 (1,597)
Kannur - 1,451 (1,273)
Palakkad - 1,077 (512)
Thiruvananthapuram - 990 (782)
Kollam - 802 (796)
Alappuzha - 800 (793)
Idukki - 682 (656)
Pathanamthitta - 673 (630)
Kasaragod - 662 (602)
Wayanad - 605 (591)
District-wise breakup of recoveries:
Thiruvananthapuram – 651
Kollam – 256
Pathanamthitta – 165
Alappuzha – 387
Kottayam – 316
Idukki – 70
Ernakulam – 355
Thrissur – 428
Palakkad – 172
Malappuram – 247
Kozhikode – 564
Wayanad – 86
Kannur – 714
Kasaragod – 154
Testing and quarantine
A total of 2,37,036 people are under observation in various districts. Of these, 2,25,683 are under home or institutional quarantine and 11,353 are in hospitals.
1,916 people were admitted in hospitals on Sunday.
So far, 1,42,71,741 samples (including the augmented sample) have been sent for testing.
On Sunday, 10 more regions have been converted into hotspots and two have been excluded from the list taking the total number of hotspots to 460 in the state.
