As many as 88 persons tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Pathanamthitta on Saturday. Of the new cases, 65 persons contracted the virus through local transmission while nine came from abroad. Among those infected are a police officer and a health worker.
The contact sources of 18 cases are yet to be identified. Meanwhile, the RT-PCR tests conducted posthumously on a 72-year-old woman and an unidentified person in Parumala confirmed that they had not died of the viral infection. With this, COVID-19 fatalities in Pathanamthitta, as released by the district administration, came down to 31.
With 189 recoveries during the day, the district currently has 1,060 active cases.
