Coronavirus | Mass testing raises Kerala tally by over 18,000 cases
The Hindu
Karnataka battles virus, logs 81 deaths, nearly 20,000 cases
Kerala was set to create new records, as the second wave of COVID-19 swept the State. Results of the augmented mass testing drive were beginning to come in on Sunday, and the daily spike in new cases saw a dramatic increase. The State’s population was largely naive to the infection (the sero prevalence in January was 10.8%), leading to expectations that the second wave would be intense and prolonged. On Sunday, results of 1,08,898 samples tested in a 24 hour period showed 18,257 persons were positive, the highest daily case figure so far. But the test positivity rate (TPR) remained a notch below Saturday’s 16.77%. Samples from a total of 3,00,971 persons were collected during the augmented testing drive conducted on Friday and Saturday, results of which would be released in two or three days.
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