Bhubaneswar: A day after crossing the 50-mark, the daily COVID caseload in Odisha dropped by almost 46 per cent on Thursday as 32 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.
A total of 59 were found infected the previous day which was a jump of almost 60 per cent. The state had reported 37 infections on March 29, 43, 48 and 43 new cases on March 28, 27 and 26 respectively after 55 were found infected on March 25.
While 10 of the new cases are in the age group of 18 years, 20 have been detected in quarantine and 12 are local contacts, the I & PR department informed. Only 12 districts have reported new cases and that too in single-digit with Khurda at the top with 5 followed by Sundargarh at 4.
Here are the districts-wise figures of the new cases:
1. Balasore: 2
2. Bargarh: 1
3. Balangir: 3
4. Cuttack: 2
5. Gajapati: 5
6. Jajpur: 1
7. Jharsuguda: 1
8. Kendrapada: 3
9. Khurda: 5
10. Mayurbhanj: 1
11. Sambalpur: 3
12. Sundargarh: 4
Besides, 1 from the state pool.
With these cases being detected from 43,165 samples, the test positivity rate stood at 0.07 per cent.
The active cases in Odisha have also dropped below 400 and touched 385, after 46 new recoveries and the addition of 32 new cases in the last 24 hours. Besides Keonjhar, Nayagarh is the second district to have turned COVID-free.
