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At 34,199, a surge in cases in Kerala

Kerala’s COVID-19 case graph recorded another jump in cases on Wednesday with 34,199 persons testing positive for COVID-19, when 91,983 samples were tested in 24 hours. The State’s active case pool, which had fewer than 20,000 patients in the beginning of the year, now has 1,68,383 patients, of whom, 3.2% are currently admitted in hospitals or field hospitals like COVID first line/second line treatment centres. Even when Omicron is said to cause fewer hospitalisations, the number of patients getting admitted in hospitals every day has been rising exponentially this past one week. Highest in Ernakulam Among districts, Ernakulam reported the highest number of new cases with 5,953 cases, Thiruvananthapuram 5,684, Thrissur 3,604, Kozhikode 3,386, Kottayam 2,333, Pathanamthitta 1,944, Palakkad 1,920, Kannur 1,814, Kollam 1,742, Malappuram 1,579, Idukki 1,435, Alappuzha 1,339, Wayanad 798, and Kasaragod 668 cases.

The Hindu

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