<span style="color: #000000;">Kerala continues to report surge in infections as 12,220 new covid-19 cases were reported in the State in the last 24 hours. <br />''<br />''With testing of 1,16,563 samples, the Test Positivity Rate stands at 10.48 per cent. 97 deaths and 12,502 recoveries were also reported. The State currently has one lakh fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty-four active caseload.</span><br />