The Kerala Government has found a new method to bring down the number of new patients afflicted with Covid-19. On Monday the State saw the number of new cases diagnosed with the pandemic getting limited to 5,930 as per the press release issued by the Department of Health. The day saw authorities testing 38, 259 samples.
“There is some discrepancy in these numbers because it is not possible to bring down the number of new patients by half within 24 hours. On Sunday, the State tested 9,347 new cases but the number of samples tested were 62,000,” said a senior Government doctor who has been cynical from the beginning about the figures released by the Government.
Out of the 5,930 persons diagnosed with Covid-19 on Monday, 4,767 contracted the pandemic through social contacts. The day also saw 195 health workers getting afflicted with Covid-19.
As 7,836 patients were cured and were discharged from hospitals, the total number of patients undergoing treatment for Covid-19 stood at 94, 388.
Meanwhile, the number of new Covid-19 patients in Tamil Nadu came down to 4,879. The bulletin issued by the State Health Department said that 80,162 samples were tested on Monday. Number of fatalities during the last 24 hours were 62 which took the tally till date to 10,314. Total number of Covid-19 patients in the State were 43, 747, less than half of that in Kerala.
Number of new patients in Chennai came down to 1212, while that of Coimbatore read 393. The three districts in Chennai cluster also showed considerable decrease in the number of new patients diagnosed with the pandemic on Monday.