Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Covid-19 tally rose to 13,21,197 Thursday as 530 more people, including 123 children, tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said.
The toll rose to 9,153 as an 80-year-old man succumbed to the disease in Bhadrak district, it said.
The state had logged 653 infections and a fatality Wednesday.
Sundargarh reported the highest number of fresh infections at 165, followed by 65 in Khurda, where state capital Bhubaneswar is located.
There are 4,687 active cases in the state at present, of which 1,186 are in Sundargarh.
As many as 1,055 more people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 13,07,304.
The positivity rate was 2.7 per cent as the new cases were detected after testing 19,623 samples.
