Kerala recorded 9,361 new cases of COVID-19 after 80,393 samples were tested in 24 hours.
The state’s active case pool came down to 80,892 on Friday, with 9,401 people reported to have recovered from the disease that day.
According to the Health Department, at present only 9.8% of the active cases are admitted in treatment centers.
The official cumulative COVID-19 case death toll in the state now stands at 27,765, with the state adding 563 deaths to the official list. These include 99 deaths in the last few days, 292 undeclared deaths for the period prior to June 2021 and 172 deaths, which have now been accepted as COVID deaths by the government as per the new guidelines of the Center and appeals filed by the families. has been followed. .
The ICU occupancy of COVID patients dropped to 1,310 on Friday. The number of patients requiring ventilator support dropped to 509.
On Friday, the number of new patients admitted to hospitals with COVID reached 825. The total number of persons currently admitted with moderate or severe COVID in hospitals across the state has come down to 8,874.
The cumulative case burden now stands at 48,97,884 cases.
Among the districts, Ernakulam has the highest number of new cases, 1,552. Thiruvananthapuram has 1,214 cases, Kollam 1,013, Thrissur 910, Kottayam 731, Kozhikode 712, Idukki 537, Malappuram 517, Pathanamthitta 500, Kannur 467, Alappuzha 390, Palakkad 337, Wayanad 310 and Kasaragod has 171 cases.