ERNAKULAM : Kerala on Tuesday confirmed a worrying 19 new infections, coming after a week's dip in new infections and partially easing lockdown relaxations in its parts since Monday.
Puzzlingly, 12 foreign returnees tested positive on the day, almost a month after the sealing of airports, raising doubts about the practicality of the state's incubation period of 28 days.
The rest three fresh patients have a travel history to Tamil Nadu. In another mystery, one person in its Pathanamthitta district continues to be positive for the last 36 days.
The state has a total of 426 recorded cases, comprising 117 active patients, 307 recovered cases and two deaths so far. A total of 36,667 persons are under observation in the state, 332 of them in