Kerala’s COVID-19 case graph, which has been on a steady climb since the past one week or more, went up by 7,006 cases on Saturday, taking the State’s cumulative case burden till date to 1,67,939.
The State has also been increasing the daily testing of samples in proportion to the rise in daily case burden, with 58,799 samples tested in the past 24 hours. However, the test positivity continues to remain at a high of 11.9, indicating the extent of disease transmission.
The number of recoveries made on Saturday is 3,199.
With the total recoveries reported so far being 1,14,530, the active cases in the State now is 52,678. Of these, 378 persons are critically ill and being treated in ICUs, with 93 on ventilatory support.
The number of new hospital admissions on Saturday was 3,446.
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