Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 868 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally in the state to 9,95,433. The active caseload in the state now stands at 10,187. It is important to note that among the new cases 104 are in the infant to the 18 years age group. May be this is an indication of the third wave that many have predicted will hit youngsters.
Out of the new infections, 507 were reported from quarantine centres while 361 persons contracted the virus locally. The state had registered 1,058 cases of coronavirus infections Sunday.
Odisha also reported 66 new fatalities in the last 24 hours taking total tally in the state to 6,953 as per a tweet of Health and Family Welfare department posted Monday morning. The state had reported 64 Covid-19 fatalities, Sunday.
Sambalpur district topped the list of fatalities with 12 deaths. It was followed by the districts of Cuttack (eight), Angul (seven), Balasore and Dhenkanal (five each), Bargarh, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur and Khurda (four each), Ganjam, Kalahandi, Kendrapara and Subarnapur (two each) and Bolangir, Deogarh, Jajpur, Jharsuguda and Nayagarh (one each).
Khurda district registered the highest number of new cases with 256 persons testing positive for the disease. It was followed by Cuttack with 154 new infections.
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Other districts that reported fresh Covid-19 cases are: Balasore (52), Jajpur (45), Sambalpur (39), Mayurbhanj (28), Angul and Kendrapara (26 each), Jagatsinghpur (23), Nayagarh and Puri (21 each), Bhadrak (19), Dhenkanal (15), Bargarh and Sundargarh (13 each), Kandhamal (12), Keonjhar (10), Bolangir (eight), Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Malkangiri and Nuapada (six each), Ganjam (three), Kalahandi and Rayagada (two each) and Boudh and Gajapati (one each).
The State Pool reported 54 new cases. These are persons who have come from outside Odisha and have tested positive.
A total of 1,70,88,513 swab samples have been cumulatively tested so far. The number of recoveries in the last 24 hours stands at 1,043.
PNN
