<span style="color: #222222;">Kerala reports highest single day surge in Covid cases with 821 people testing positive for the virus, today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, out of new cases, 629 persons contracted the disease through contact.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The State also reported two deaths due to Covid, each in Kasargode and Ernakulam district,  taking the death toll in the State to 42.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Thiruvananthapuram continue to report the highest number of cases with 222 new cases among which 203 cases  are through local transmission.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, 172 patients have recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours. Presently 7063 active Covid cases are there in Kerala.</span><br />''