Ernakulam: Kerala on Sunday confirmed eight new Covid-19 cases, state health minister K. K. Shailaja said, taking the tally to 314.
Of these, 256 are patients, 56 have recovered and there are two fatalities. Another six patients recovered on Sunday. Five of the fresh cases came from Kozhikode district, while one each are from Kasaragod, Pathanamthitta and Kannur districts, the minister said.
Four of the five new cases in Kozhikode are linked to the religious event in Delhi's Nizamuddin, now a hotspot in the country, and the other one is a person who returned from Dubai, Shailaja said.
A total of ten people have been infected so far in Kerala because of the Delhi event, she added. In Pathanamthitta, the patient had a travel history to