ERNAKULAM : Kerala on Wednesday confirmed 11 new cases and only one recovery, announced the state's chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
This is the second consecutive day where the state is reporting more infections than recoveries, a worrying trend in one of the few Indian states that have significantly flattened the infection curve.
Kerala has seen more than 70% recoveries out of its total 437 cases recorded so far. But after dipping for weeks until the weekend, fresh patients rose up this week to reach 127 active patients as on Wednesday.
Five of the new patients are foreign returnees and three were infected through contacts, said the chief minister. Another patient is a health worker, and two others are house surgeons in a public-run