Kerala has come down when compared to the first and second week of January, said state health minister Veena George on Tuesday.
The state comes even as Kerala on Tuesday reported 51,887 new coronavirus infections after testing 1,21,048 samples. The positivity rate for the last seven days is 47.6% and the cumulative caseload in the state has reached 60,77,556.
Despite this, the minister said the state witnessed a 45% spread in the first week of January which went high up to 215% in the third week of the month. "However, the rate of the spread came down to 71% in the fourth week of January and again decreased to 165 in the last week," George said.
She informed that only 42.47% of the total ICU beds in the state are being used by both Covid and non-Covid patients. "At least 845 of the ventilators are vacant now," she said.