The State on Friday reported another 1,310 cases to its COVID-19 tally, taking the cumulative case burden to 23,613.
The new cases reported are 885, while the remaining 425 cases were added on from Thursday’s tally.
Following technical glitches, the Health Department had not been able to compile the data from Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad and Kasaragod districts on Thursday.
Health workers
Of the 1,310 new cases, 1,207 are locally acquired infections, of which 36 cases have not been traced to any particular source of infection. Twenty health-care workers have also been affected.
Three deaths were officially confirmed, two in Ernakulam and one in Kollam, taking the toll to 73.
On Friday, the number of recoveries reported was 864. With a total of 13,027 recoveries reported till date, the number of patients currently in various hospitals is 10,495.
Thiruvananthapuram leads among districts with 320 cases, of which all except one are locally acquired infections.
There seems to be no let up in disease transmission within some of the coastal clusters in the district from where the disease has been spreading into newer coastal villages and the city. The number of persons undergoing treatment in the district has swelled to 3,078, of which a chunk are being managed at COVID first line treatment centres.
New cases in districts
The new cases reported in other districts are Ernakulam 132, Pathanamthitta 130, Wayanad 124, Kottayam 89, Kozhikode 84, Palakkad 83, Malappuram 75, Thrissur 60, Idukki 59, Kollam 53, Kasaragod 52, Alappuzha 35 and Kannur 14.
The number of people in quarantine is over 1.43 lakh, of whom 10,172 with mild symptoms are isolated in hospitals.
The State has tested 22,279 samples in the last 24 hours. The number of hotspots in the State has gone up to 498.
