Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a statement mentioned that the States’s daily Coronavirus tally continued to fluctuate with 8,867 people turned positive on Friday from 79,554 samples tested in the past 24 hours, and the test positivity rate at 11.14 per cent, On Thursday 9,246 people had turned positive and the TPR was 12.31 per cent.
Chief Minster’s statement also pointed out that 9,872 people turned negative while the total active cases stood at 94,756, of which 9.8 per cent were patients in hospitals. The day also saw 67 Covid deaths taking the death toll to 26,734. On the vaccination front, 93.7 per cent (2.50 crore) of those aged 18 years and above have received their first dose, while 44.9 per cent (1.20 crore) have received both the doses.
Meanwhile, India recorded 15,981 new cases of the Covid-19, along with 166 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. The Country saw a total of 17,861 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 98.07 per cent and total recoveries to 3,33,99,961, as per the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
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