Kerala's COVID-19 cases surge to 32.8K, accounts for 70% of India’s total tally - In Pics

With 32801 COVID-19 cases Kerala accounts for 70 per cent of the total 46759 tally recorded pan India on Saturday. Kerala has been reporting more than 30,000 new COVID-19 cases for three days in a row raising concerns from all quarters. In pics

In the past week, Kerala has reported second-most number of cases in India accounting for nearly 50% of the coutry-wide total active case tally. 

Expressing concern, the Centre has asked the states of Kerala and Maharashtra to consider night curfews in areas with high COVID-19 case numbers as India reports more than 40,000 new infections for three days in a row on Saturday.

A bigger cause for concern was the rising test positivity rate in the state. Kerala recorded a TPR of 19.2% on Friday, up from just over 18% on the previous day.

Though, Kerala has one of India's lowest COVID fatality rates at 0.5%, the fear of a third wave of COVID-19 wave looms large.