ERNAKULAM: Kerala on Wednesday reported 40 new covid-19 cases, and ten recoveries. The state now has a total 1,004 recorded cases, said Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Of these, 445 are active cases and 553 have recovered. The numbers have been on the rise since last week in Kerala, one of the few states in India which had manged to flatten the infection curve previously.
The rise is largely a result of several people returning from other states and abroad. Of the new patients, 28 had came from other states and nine returned from abroad, said Vijayan.
Only three were infected through contacts, he said. The number of people under observation crossed 1 lakh in Kerala again. In the last 24 hours, 229 were hospitalised, he said.