526 More Test Positive For COVID In Odisha; 13% Infectees Children

Bhubaneswar: As many as 526 persons, including 68 in the age group of 0-18 years, tested positive in Odisha in the last 24 hours.

The state had seen 524 positive cases on Friday, 582 on Thursday and 593 on Wednesday.

While 303 of the new cases on Saturday are from quarantine, 223 are local contacts. Five districts reported nil cases.

Here are the district-wise figures of the new cases:

1. Angul: 3
2. Balasore: 33
3. Bargarh: 2
4. Bhadrak: 3
5. Balangir: 1
6. Cuttack: 63
7. Deogarh: 3
8. Gajapati: 2
9. Ganjam: 3
10. Jagatsinghpur: 16
11. Jajpur: 13
12. Jharsuguda: 1
13. Kalahandi: 1
14. Kandhamal: 3
15. Kendrapada: 14
16. Khurda: 233
17. Koraput: 4
18. Malkangiri: 2
19. Mayurbhanj: 29
20. Nayagarh: 2
21. Puri: 11
22. Rayagada: 2
23. Sambalpur: 7
24. Sonepur: 1
25. Sundargarh: 19

Besides, 55 are from the state pool.

With these cases detected from 68,624 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.76%. The TPR was 0.78% on Friday, 0.75% on Thursday, 0.82% on Wednesday and 0.77% on Tuesday.

While the affected tally in the state has touched 10,31,044, Odisha now has 5,035 active cases.