Covid-19 infections today, a year after the first-ever case was reported in the state of Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry.It was on 30 January last year that a medical student, who returned to Thrissur from the Chinese province of Wuhan, the epicentre of Covid-19, tested positive.Meanwhile, Kerala on Friday logged 6,268 new infections, with 72,239 active cases, the highest in the country.
With the fresh infections, the state's total Covid-19 caseload has risen to 9,17,630 while 6,398 recoveries took the total number of those discharged to 8,41,444, the state government said.