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Kerala confirmed 1,310 new Covid-19 cases on Friday. The State Health department informed that out of the new cases an alarming 1,162, persons contracted the virus through contact. Source of infection of 36 patients is unknown.
Creating concern, 20 health workers, also tested Covid positive. Today’s Covid numbers included the results of samples tested from Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad and Kasaragod, yesterday, which was on hold due to maintenance works on ICMR web portal.
Thiruvananthapuram continues to report the highest number of covid cases, 320, among which 311 are through local transmission.
State also confirmed 3 deaths due to Covid today, taking the official death toll to 73. Meanwhile, 864 people recovered from the virus infection today. At present there are 10,495 active Covid cases in Kerala.