Thiruvananthapuram: Covid-19 was detected in 19,894 persons in Kerala on Sunday while 29,013 patients have recovered from the disease, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
"In the last 24 hours, Covid was not detected in any person who recently came to Kerala from the UK taking the total to 126, and their samples have been sent to NIV, Pune for further testing. So far, 11 people who came from the UK were diagnosed with the genetically modified virus," the Chief Minister said in a press release here this evening.
Meanwhile, 186 recent deaths were confirmed today as due to Covid taking the death toll in the state to 8,641.
He said 1,24,537 samples were tested during the last 24 hours and the test positivity rate is 15.97 %. Till now, a total of 1,97,06,583 samples have been sent for testing.
Today, eight places weee identified as new hotspots while any place was not excluded from the list, taking the total to 887 hotspots in the State.
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