Odisha: Daily COVID-19 Caseload Remains Below 400 For 2nd Consecutive Day

Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID-19 caseload in Odisha dropped below 400 for the second consecutive day on Saturday as 374 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.

The state reported 365 new cases on Friday, 412 on Thursday, 549 on Wednesday, and 433 on Tuesday.

Of the fresh infections reported from 24 districts, 65 cases (17.37 per cent) are below 18 years of age.

Khurda district reported the highest 182 cases, followed by Mayurbhanj at 22. Six districts saw nil cases.

Here are district-wise figures of the new cases:

1. Angul: 6
2. Balasore: 14
3. Bargarh: 4
4. Bhadrak: 6
5. Balangir: 1
6. Cuttack: 17
7. Deogarh: 4
8. Dhenkanal: 2
9. Gajapati: 2
10. Ganjam: 5
11. Jagatsinghpur: 11
12. Jajpur: 13
13. Jharsuguda: 1
14. Kalahandi: 1
15. Kendrapada: 3
16. Keonjhar: 1
17. Khurda: 182
18. Mayurbhanj: 22
19. Nayagarh: 1
20. Nuapada: 8
21. Puri: 7
22. Sambalpur: 10
23. Sonepur: 1
24. Sundargarh: 9

Besides, 43 are from the state pool.

With these cases detected from 68,705 samples, the test positivity rate stood at 0.54 per cent.

While the COVID-19 tally has touched 1,040,969, Odisha now has 4,380 active cases.