Cuttack: The Odisha government on Thursday informed about 131 new COVID-19 cases being reported from Cuttack district.

With these new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the affected tall in the district rose to 3518.

6. Boudh: 22
7. Cuttack: 131
8. Deogarh: 16
9. Dhenkanal: 39
10. Gajapati: 8
11. Ganjam: 267
12. Jagatsinghpur: 42
13. Jajpur: 60
14. Jharsuguda: 8
15. Kalahandi: 39
16. Kandhamal: 179
17. Kendrapada: 29
18. Keonjhar: 23
19. Khurda: 274
20. Koraput: 97
21. Malkangiri: 64

— I & PR Department, Odisha (@IPR_Odisha) August 13, 2020

The district administration, however, later tweeted that three of the 131 cases belong to other districts and another already reported on Wednesday.

Giving the details of the remaining 127 cases, it said that the highest of 115 cases have been detected in areas under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), followed by three from Athagarh, two each from Kantapada and Salepur and one each from Banki, Choudwar, Mahanga, Sadar and Tangi.

#COVID19 report of Aug,12:
Out of 131+ve cases shown by @IPR_Odisha, in respect of #Cuttack dist, 3 cases belong to other districts.1 case was already reported y’day.
Rest 127 follows:-
Athgarh-3
Banki-1
Choudwar-1
CMC-115
Kantapada-2
Mahanga-1
Sadar-1
Salipur-2
Tangi-1

— Cuttack DM (@CuttackDM) August 13, 2020

The virus has so far claimed 13 lives in the district, two of which were reported in the last 24 hours. A total of 2338 patients have recovered from the infection in the district.

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