On Thursday, the state registered 1,676 cases taking the total number of Covid-19 cases to 41,018 at 5 pm.
Ten more people were killed by Covid-19 on the day taking the number of dead so far to 396.
The number of active cases as on Thursday were 13,328 while the number of ‘discharged/recovered’ so far has reached 27,295, the daily Covid-19 bulletin issued by the health department said.
Thursday was the first time that the state government indicated that not everyone being sent home has recovered from the disease but many are discharged after not showing Covid-19 symptoms for a given number of days.
Only when a patient enters the very serious infection stage and manages to pull back to recovery, is he or she tested for a negative Rt-PCR test before discharge. For others who are discharged, absence of symptoms means an assumption that the disease is harmless in them but they are let go without the final relief that comes from a negative test.
The state said that so far it has conducted 2,08,666 tests of which 14,027 were conducted on Thursday. No details were provided as to how many of these were the gold standard Rt-PCR test and how many were Rapid Antigen Tests that are not considered a fool proof Covid-19 testing method.DC
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