Kerala: 210 Covid-19 cases in Malappuram, over 100 in six districts

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state on Tuesday reported 79 Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of active cases to 1,366. As many as 60 patients recovered from the infection on the day in line with the trend of more patients testing negative for the virus in the past three days. The total number of recoveries in the state so far is 1,234.
Seven districts in the state have more than 100 active cases now, with Malappuram (210 cases) topping the chart.Thrissur has 150 cases, followed by Palakkad (143), Kannur (132), Kozhikode (102), Pathanamthitta (101) and Alappuzha (100).
Of the new cases, 47 persons came from abroad and 26 from other states. Six more persons, including a health worker in Pathanamthitta, were infected through contact. Thiruvananthapuram (2), Malappuram, Kannur and Palakkad (1 each) are the other contact cases.
Malappuram (15) had the highest number of cases on Tuesday, followed by Ernakulam (13), Thrissur, Alappuzha and Kannur (7 each), Pathanamthitta and Palakkad (6 each), Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kottayam and Kozhikode (4 each) and Kasaragod (2).
The government will launch 19 mobile surveillance units in the state in the wake of reports of monsoon-related ailments being reported in large numbers in certain parts of the state.
Kerala to get 19 mobile surveillance units
Of these, two units each will be deployed in Kasaragod, Palakkad, Thrissur, Kannur and Malappuram while one unit each will be deployed in the other districts.
Each of these units will have a doctor, a nurse and a lab technician. They will tour areas with no health centres and places where people have to travel far to reach the nearest health centre. Besides providing preliminary care for people at their doorsteps, these mobile units will help shift patients to the nearest health centre.
At present, 1,22,143 people are under surveillance, of whom 1,20,157 are under home/institutional quarantine and 1,986 admitted to designated isolation facilities. In the past 24 hours, 4,003 samples were tested in the state. Till date, 1,18,893 samples (including repeat and private lab samples) have been sent for tests, of which the results of 4,081 are pending. Besides, 31,093 of the total 32,534 samples taken from priority groups as part of sentinel surveillance also tested negative.
Of those who recovered on the day, 14 are in Thiruvananthapuram, nine in Palakkad, eight in Kasaragod, seven in Malappuram, five each in Alappuzha and Wayanad, four in Kottayam, three each in Pathanamthitta and Thrissur and one each in Ernakulam and Kannur.