The COVID-19 graph continued to rise in the State, with 2,415 new cases being reported on Thursday, when 18,312 samples were tested in the past 24 hours.
The test positivity rate on the day rose to 13.1% against 11.5% on Wednesday. The State currently has 12,438 active cases.
Ernakulam continues to be at the top of the chart, reporting 796 cases, followed by Thiruvananthapuram (368), Kottayam (260) and Kozhikode (213). Over one hundred cases each were reported from Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Alappuzha and Thrissur, while the cases are in double digits and slowly rising in the remaining districts.