<span style="color: #222222;">Kerala reported the highest single-day surge in COVID cases with 1,103 people testing positive for the virus today.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports, State Health Minister K.K.Shailaja informed through the official press release, that among the new cases, 838 persons contracted the disease through contact. The State also reported four deaths due to COVID today, each in Kasargode, Kozhikode, Palakkad and Ernakulam district, taking the death toll in the State to 60. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Thiruvananthapuram continues to report the highest number of cases with 240 new cases among which 218 cases are through local transmission. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the State also recorded the highest single day recoveries so far as 1,049 patients have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours. Presently, there are 9,420 active COVID cases in Kerala.</span><br />''