Kerala logged 26,514 new COVID-19 cases on Monday after testing 55,557 samples.
Around 2 lakh new cases have been reported from Kerala in the past five days and the daily test positivity rate reached an all
time high of 47.7 percent on Wednesday.
COVID fatalities reached 51,987 after 158 previously undocumented deaths and 13 recent ones were added to the list, Health Minister Veena George said in a press release.