
3,205 new cases of COVID-19 in Kerala
The Hindu
Thiruvananthapuram tops list with 645 cases
As many as 3,205 cases of COVID-19 were reported in Kerala on Wednesday when 56,388 samples were tested. Thiruvananthapuram district had the highest number of cases (645), followed by Ernakulam (575) and Kozhikode (313).
While 10 cases were confirmed in persons who had arrived from outside the State, 3,036 contracted the infection through contact and the source of infection was yet to be ascertained in 141 cases. Of the 3,205 new cases, 243 had received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 1,664 were fully vaccinated while 860 had not been vaccinated.
Strict regulations were imposed in six wards where the weekly infection population ratio (WIPR) was more than 10.

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