ERNAKULAM : Kerala reported seven new covid-19 cases on Monday, said state health minister KK Shailaja. There are no new recoveries, she said.
With this, active cases have reached 27 in Kerala. The state has recorded total 512 recorded cases, of them 489 recovered. All of the fresh cases except one are in people who returned recently from other states or overseas.
Four in Kasargod district returned from Maharashtra, one each in Palakkad and Malappuram districts returned from Chennai and Kuwait respectively.
The rest one person in Wayanad district was infected through contacts, said the health minister. Kerala has been flattening the covid-19 infection curve till last week when returnees started arriving from outside the borders.