Kerala increased COVID-19 testing by almost 25,000 tests on Thursday to test 84,007 samples in the past 24 hours, the highest number of tests done in a day so far during the pandemic.
New cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday was 6,102, with the test positivity rate dropping to 7.26% .
The State’s cumulative burden rose to 9,50,811 cases.
The State has been reporting as many or more recoveries as new cases for the past several days and the active case pool which had been on the rise has since then dropped to less than 70,000 cases.
6,341 recoveries
With 6,341 patients reportedly recovering on Thursday, the active case pool came down further to 68,857 cases. The cumulative recoveries reported till date has risen to 8,77,889.
On Thursday, 17 more deaths were added to the official list of fatalities, taking the State’s toll ever since the pandemic began to 3,813 deaths. Thiruvananthapuram reported six deaths, Kollam, Thrissur, and Kozhikode two each, and Alappuzha, Ernakulam,…