Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday revealed the details of the two persons, who had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous night.
The Health and Family Welfare Department in a tweet identified them as a 35-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man. They are close contacts of the 45-year-old man of Madhusudan Nagar, Unit IV, who had tested positive for the infection on April 7.
Patient Details of #Covid19 #Odisha
Case no-49 (35 Years Female) & Case no-50: (23 Years Male) are the close contacts of Madhusudan Nagar, Unit- 4, Bhubaneswar Covid-19 Case. pic.twitter.com/XJdaX9xz1h
— I & PR Department, Odisha (@IPR_Odisha) April 11, 2020
With this, the total number of cases in Bhubaneswar, which is slowly turning into a COVID-19 hotspot, has touched 40. Odisha so far has 50 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus. While one persons has died of the disease, 12 have recovered and discharged from hospitals.
