Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Saturday said that 607 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged.
Out of the 607 persons, 279 are from Ganjam, 84 from Jajpur, 50 from Khurda, 42 from Cuttack, 23 from Keonjhar, 21 from Malkangiri, 15 from Puri, 15 from Sundargarh, 12 from Mayurbhanj, 11 from Bargarh, nine from Koraput, eight from Kandhamal, seven from Jagatsinghpur, six each from Angul, Balasore and Nabarangpur, five from Bhadrak, three from Gajapati, two each from Kendrapara and Sambalpur and one from Dhenkanal.
With this, total recoveries in the state now stand at 11,938.
Meanwhile, Odisha’s COVID-19 tally rose to 16,701 with 591 fresh cases, while the death toll reached 86 with three more patients succumbing to the disease. Two men from Ganjam, aged 63 and 60, and a 48-year-old woman from Gajapati died of coronavirus infection.
The new 591 cases were reported from 25 districts. Of the fresh cases, 394 were detected in different quarantine centres and 197 during contact-tracing exercises.
