Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala''s COVID-19 tally isinching towards the 4,000 mark as the state continued to see a sharp spike for the eight consecutive day with 150 people, including six CISF personnel and a health worker being infected on Friday. With the addition of the fresh cases, the infection count in the state has reached 3876. The new positive cases today include 91 from abroad and 48 people from other states. Ten people have been infected through contact, including five from Thiruvananthapuram,while one is a health worker.
A 41-year-old VSSC employee and a 60-year-old retired worker from the organisation are among those infected. Presently, 1846 infected people are undergoing treatment in varioushospitals, while 2006 have recovered from the infection, including 65 who were cured and discharged today, health minister K K Shailaja said in a press release. Palakkad reported the highest spike of 23 cases today, Alappuzha 21, Kottayam 18, Malappuram and Kollam 16 cases each, Kannur 13, Ernakulam nine, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode seven each, Wayanad five, Pathnamthitta four, Idukki and Kasaragod two each.
Of the infected in Kannur, six are CISF personnel-- two of them were on duty at Kannur airport and three are Army DSC (Defence Service Corps) canteen employees. At least 1,63,944 people are under observation in various districts-- 1,61,547 in home/institutional quarantine and 2,397 in hospitals, including 312 who were admitted today. There are totally 114 hotspots in the state. Palakaad has the highest number of cases-- 237 followed by Malappuram 191, Kollam 183, Pathanamthitta 177, Kannur 157 and Alappuzha 154.
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