Kerala detected 29,836 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, after reporting over 30,000 infections for four straight days, as per data by the state health department.
This has taken the cumulative caseload to 40,07,408. In addition to this, 75 more people succumbed to the virus, taking the death toll due to Covid in Kerala to 20,541.
As many as 22,088 people have been cured of the infection since Saturday, taking the total recoveries to 37,73,754 and the number of active cases to 2,12,566.
The test positivity rate rose closer to 19.67% as 1,51,670 samples were tested in 24 hours. So far, 3,12,75,313 crore samples have been tested.