The State reported 3,677 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday when 63,582 samples were tested during the past 24 hours. The State’s cumulative case burden now stands at 10,48,686.
The test positivity rate, has been remaining steady and was 5.78% on Thursday.
Of the 63,582 tests, 37,953 were rapid antigen assay while the RT-PCR test numbers numbered 23,146. Other molecular diagnostic tests such as Truenat, CBNAAT, constituted the remaining tests.
The State’s active case pool has been dropping rapidly all of this week and with 4,652 recoveries being reported on Thursday, the active case load dropped to 51,879. The cumulative recoveries now stood at 9,92,372 cases.
Death toll
The addition of 14 new deaths during the last few days to the official list of COVID-19 fatalities in the State on Thursday has taken the toll to 4,150 deaths.
Alappuzha and Malappuram reported three deaths each, Thrissur and Kottayam two each while Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Kollam and Pathanamthitta…