ERNAKULAM: One in Kerala died of covid-19 on Thursday, while the state recorded 84 new cases - its highest single-day spike, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
The deceased was a Telangana native who had reached Kerala in a train instead of his home state, Vijayan said. In some good news, three people marked recoveries today, he said.
Except for five who contracted the disease through contacts, all other new patients were from outside of the state, Vijayan said. "31 fresh patients came from other countries, 48 came from other states.
The person who died was supposed to travel to Telangana, but on 22 May he boarded the wrong train from Rajasthan and reached Thiruvananthapuram." Kerala has so far recorded 1,088 cases of covid-19, with 8