Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 14: Minister for Health, Smt K K Shailaja has informed that Covid-19 has been confirmed in 1,569 persons in Kerala today. 1,354 people were infected through contact and the source of infection was not traceable in 86 cases. 56 persons are those who have arrived from foreign countries and 132 from other states. Meanwhile, 1,304 patients have recovered from the disease today.
10 deaths were also reported today taking the death toll in the state to 139. The deceased have been identified as Lakshmi (74), Nirmala (65), Shirley (62), Lalitha (70), M Surendran (60) and Stanzilas (80) from Thiruvananthapuram district, Moiduppa (82), from Malappuram district, Thankappan (70) and Rukia (60) from Ernakulam district, and George (65) from Thrissur district. Further deaths will be confirmed after testing at NIV, Alappuzha.
310 persons from Thiruvananthapuram district, 198 in Malappuram district, 180 from Palakkad district, 114 in Ernakulam district, 113 from Alappuzha district, 101 in Kottayam district, 99 from Kozhikode district, 95 in Kannur district, 80 from Thrissur district, 75 in Kollam district, 58 from Idukki district, 57 in Wayanad district, 49 from Kasaragod district and 40 in Pathanamthitta district are those who tested positive today for Coronavirus infection.
The district-wise figures of local transmission are 300 in Thiruvananthapuram district, 173 in Malappuram district, 161 in Palakkad district, 110 in Ernakulam district, 99 in Alappuzha district, 86 in Kottayam district, 85 in Kozhikode district, 68 in Thrissur district, 65 in Kollam district, 63 in Kannur district, 56 from Wayanad district, 34 from Kasaragod district, 31 from Idukki district and 23 from Pathanamthitta district.
In addition, 27 healthcare workers were also infected, eight in Kannur district, six in Malappuram district, five in Thiruvananthapuram district, four in Kozhikode district, one each in Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Palakkad and Kasaragod districts.
The number of patients who tested negative today are 424 from Malappuram district, 199 from Thiruvananthapuram district, 111 in Kozhikode district, 91 from Palakkad district, 87 from Ernakulam district, 75 in Kannur district, 66 from Alappuzha district, 53 from Thrissur district, 51 in Kasaragod district, 48 from Kottayam district, 33 from Wayanad district, 32 in Pathanamthitta district, 26 from Kollam district and eight in Idukki district. At present, there are 14,094 patients undergoing treatment while 26,996 people have so far been cured of Covid.
There are currently 1,55,025 people under surveillance in various districts of the state, 1,42,291 under home or institutional quarantine and 12,734 in hospitals. 1,479 persons were hospitalised today.
During the last 24 hours, 31,738 samples were tested. A total of 11,20,935 samples have so far been sent for testing and of these, test results of 8,220 samples are yet to come. As part of the Sentinel Surveillance, 1,45,064 samples were collected from priority groups such as health workers, guest workers and people with greater social contact and the results of 1,645 are in process.
Today, 18 new hotspots were declared and four places were removed from the list. There are 555 hotspots in Kerala now.