Kerala, the state's COVID-19 positivity rate has decreased to 10 per cent, state health minister Veena George told news agency ANI today.
She added that the state's fatality rate has also reached 0.9 per cent, which is also less than the national average. Meanwhile, the state today reported a major fall in Covid-19 cases as 38,684 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours.
The state also recorded 41,037 recoveries and 28 deaths in the last 24 hrs, the health department data shows. Yesterday, Kerala had reported 42,677 new COVID-19 cases and 36 people lost their lives to the deadly virus.
The state government said a total of 197 deaths were not added due to lack of documents and 370 deaths were added to the Covad death list as per new guidelines of the central govt.