Summary:
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 24 (PTI) After registering over 45,000 daily new COVID-19 cases for the past few days, Kerala on Monday recorded 26,514 fresh ones and took the total affected in the State to 56,46,665.
It reported 45,449 cases on Sunday while there were 45,136 new cases the next day.
On January 20, there were 46,387 cases, the highest single-day spike since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.
The Health department said 55,557 samples were tested in the last 24 hours which apparently explains a low number of positive cases today.
The State had a full lockdown on Sunday and the testings were limited.
On Sunday, the State reported over 45,000 cases after testing 1,01,252 samples on Saturday.