Kerala, said the state health department in a statement on Thursday. In addition to this, 309 more deaths were added to the toll as per the central government guidelines, taking the total number to 51,501.
The state also added 54 new cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, taking the tally to 645. Out of the total, 434 patients had come from low-risk countries, 107 from high-risk countries, 80 patients through contact tracing and 24 persons from other states.
This comes as the central government during the day classified Kerala as a “state of concern" due to the rising active infections.