COVID-19: Positive cases rise to 21 in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram/UNI: With two more people testing positive to coronavirus on Sunday, total affected cases rose to 21 in Kerala, Health Minister KK Shailaja Teacher said here this evening.
The Minister said 10,944 people are under COVID-19 surveillance in the State till this evening. Out of 10,944 people, 10,655 were quarantined at their homes and 289 in the isolation wards of various hospitals in the State, she added.
A UK citizen stayed at a resort in Munnar has been tested positive to Coronovirous on Sunday. Now, he was put under the isolation ward of Kalamaseeri Medical College in Eranakulam district. Another doctor, who reached in Thiruvananthapuram after his studies in Spain, tested positive to the Coronovirous.
Though 3 people were tested positive to the Coronavirus earlier, they have been cured and later tested negative. Hence, the total cases reported positive in Kerala were 24, she clarified.
"Out of 2,147 blood samples sent to the Virology Institute, the results of 1,514 tested negative. We are also awaiting for the lab reports of the others," she said. She also urged people coming from abroad to contact the health department, which took several measures to contain the spread of the deadly virus spreading in 141 countries.
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