Kerala on Saturday crossed the 10 lakh mark in terms of total COVID-19 recoveries, while reporting 3,792 new positive cases and 18 deaths.
With the addition of the fresh cases, the infection count surged to 10,56,498 and the death toll to 4,182, state Health Minister K K Shailaja said in a release here.
As many as 4,650 people have recuperated from the disease on Saturday, taking the total cured in the state to 10,01,164, she said.
Currently, there are 50,514 people under treatment.
The minister said no UK returnee had tested positive in the last 24 hours.So far, the total infected UK returnees in the southern state was 94.
Among them, 11 people were earlier found infected with the new strain of virus, she said.
Stating that the state has tested 73,710 samples in the last 24 hours, the minister said the test positivity rate was 5.14 per cent.
Till now, 1,14,13,515 samples have been tested.
“Among those found infected today, 112 people reached the state from outside while 3,418 contracted the disease from their contacts.The source of infection of 236 are yet to be traced while 26health workers are also among the infected,” the minister said.
