COVID alert: Kerala records 19,622 new cases as TPR comes down to 16.74%

As many as 132 fresh deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 20,673 in Kerala.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala continued to reel under Covid with 19,622 cases reported after 1,17,216 samples were tested in the past 24 hours and the test positivity rate stood at 16.74 per cent, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday (August 30). In a statement issued here, he also said that the day saw 22,563 people turning negative while the total number of active cases was 2,09,493. As many as 132 fresh deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 20,673.