THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : In a sharp spike, ten people, four of them who had flown in from abroad recently, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kerala on Wednesday as the numbers of those under treatment for the infection climbed to 41.
Of this, three are from Malappuram, two each from Wayanad and Palakkad districts and one each from Kottayam, Kannur and Kozhikode districts.
While four of the infected had come from abroad, two from Chennai and four had been infected through contact, a government press release said.
Two police personnel of the Manathavady police station in Wayanad have tested positve and are contacts of the truck driver who had returned from Koyambedu market in Chennai and infected 10 people.