Kerala registered 702 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, when 24,313 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
The State’s active case pool declined further and there are 5,353 patients (active cases) on Tuesday. A total of 730 persons were reported to have recovered from the disease on the day. About 10.4% of the active cases are currently hospitalised.
The total number of patients admitted with moderate or severe COVID in hospitals dwindled further to 597. New hospital admissions on the day was 80.