Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 5,896 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the state I & PR department said in a tweet Tuesday. The new cases took the total tally in the state to 8,25,110 while the active caseload stands at 74,172. Out of the new infections, 3,332 were reported from quarantine centres while 2,564 persons contracted the virus locally. This is the first time in over three weeks that Odisha has reported less than 6,000 cases of daily infection.
Highest single-day fatality
Odisha reported the highest single-day fatality with 45 persons succumbing to the deadly virus. It took the total tally in the state to 3,080, a tweet by Health and Family Welfare department said Tuesday. The state had reported 41 fatalities Monday.
Khurda reported the highest number of deaths (six); followed by Cuttack and Kalahandi (five each), Angul, Dhenkanal and Sundargarh (four each), Boudh and Jharsuguda (three each) and Bargarh and Yaragada (two each). The districts of Balasore, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj and Nayagarh reported one fatality each.
Khurda district registered the highest number of new Covid-19 cases with 853 persons testing positive for the disease. It was followed by Jajpur with 413 new infections.
Other districts that reported fresh Covid-19 cases are: Angul (385), Balasore (373), Bhadrak (370), Cuttack (349), Dhenkanal (306), Mayurbhanj (261), Puri (241), Kendrapara (235), Jagatsinghpur (232), Nayagarh (177), Nabarangpur (174), Rayagada (166), Keonjhar (130), Koraput (129), Malkangiri (116), Sundargarh (113), Bargarh (99), Sambalpur (92), Bolangir and Subarnapur (77 each), Boudh (73), Kandhamal (65), Jharsuguda (54), Kalahandi (53), Gajapati (44), Nuapada (37), Ganjam (35), Deogarh (22),
The State Pool reported 145 new cases. These are persons who have come from outside Odisha and have tested positive.
A total of 1,23,19,190 swab samples have been cumulatively tested so far. The number of new recoveries stands at 8,429. With this, the total number of recovered patients in the state has increased to 7,47,805.
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