Active case pool drops below 50,000
The Hindu
4,677 new cases, 6,632 recoveries in State
Kerala reported 4,677 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday when 56,558 samples were tested in the past 24 hours.
The State’s cumulative case burden, ever since the pandemic began, now stands at 51,24,618 cases.
The official cumulative case fatality now stands at 39,125 with the State adding 388 deaths to the official list of COVID deaths on Friday. This includes 33 deaths which occurred in the past few days and 355 deaths which have now been accepted as COVID deaths by the Government as per the new guidelines of the Centre and following the appeals filed by families.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.