Two COVID-19 deaths in Karnataka and a modest number of cases reported in the southern States stood in contrast to an improved situation in Kerala on Wednesday. Kerala improvesKerala highlighted its high recovery rate, with 218 out of 387 patients so far recovering from the disease. As many as 780 samples from the pharma company have been tested and 46 have tested positive,” he said. He said the Centre was declaring districts with more than 15 COVID-19 positive cases as hotspots. In Thanjavur, a pregnant woman, who tested positive for COVID-19, delivered a boy through a caesarean section.

Source: The Hindu April 16, 2020 05:34 UTC