<span style="color: #222222;">Kerala recorded 13,832 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours. Test positivity rate has further dropped to 12.72 per cent. With 18,172 recoveries, active case burden of the state has declined to 1,29,488. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In all, 171 deaths were confirmed of COVID today, taking the death toll to 10,975. More than one lakh eight thousand samples were tested in the last 24 hours.</span><br />'' <b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b><br />''  <br />