
Yet another day of 30,000 plus cases
The Hindu
Test Positivity Rate at 18.86%,
ICU and ventilator occupancy as well as hospitalisations continued to rise even as the State logged 30,203 new on Tuesday, when 1,60,152 samples were tested in the past 24 hours. The test positivity rate was 18.86%. The COVID-19 graph in the State had risen from a plateau of 20,000 plus cases daily to a new high of 30,000 to 32,000 cases in the space of one week post Onam, between August 21 and 28. While these are early days, the case graph now seems to be stabilising again at 30,000 to 32,000 cases daily.
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