After the festive week of Onam, Kerala woke up to the grim reality of the pandemic as daily Covid-19 cases in the state shot up to a near three-month high of 24,296 on Tuesday. The massive surge pushed the national count of fresh cases past the 37,000 mark again after 11 days.
India recorded 37,642 new cases on Tuesday, the highest single-day count since August 13. Nearly 65% of the fresh infections came from Kerala. The state’s tally nearly equalled India’s Covid count on the previous day, when 24,733 cases were detected.
The spike in Kerala comes after days of relatively low testing and detections due to Onam. The state reported fewer than 17,000 new daily cases over the past three days, although the numbers prior to that were above 20,000.
This story is from the August 25, 2021 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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