Kerala continued to be battered by Covid-19 as 1,420 new persons were diagnosed with the pandemic on Saturday, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in his daily press briefing. He said this is the highest number of Covid-19 affected persons being tested in the State on a single day.
The State saw four persons succumbing to the coronavirus during the last 24 hours which ended on Saturday evening, said Vijayan. He said 1,216 persons out of the 1,420 new patients contracted Covid-19 through local transmission. “While 60 expatriates and 108 persons from other parts of the country tested positive, 92 persons failed to point out the source from where they contracted the pandemic,” said the chief minister.
He said the only silver lining in the news related to covid-19 was the number of persons who were cured from the pandemic. “On Saturday, we saw 1,715 persons getting cured and discharged from hospitals,” he said.
Vijayan said the number of health workers getting infected with the pandemic is disturbing. “More than 30 health workers got afflicted with Covid-19 during the last 24 hours,” said the chief minister.
In Thiruvananthapuram, 485 persons were diagnosed with Covid-19 on Saturday. Out of this, 435 were infected through social transmission while 33 persons failed to furnish the details of the source of infection, said the chief minister. He expressed concern over the rising number of Covid-19 patients in the district.
Samples from 27,714 persons were tested during the last 24 hours.