Active COVID Cases In Odisha Cross 3000-Mark Amid Slight Drop In New Infections & Testing

Bhubaneswar: Active COVID caseload in Odisha breached the 3000-mark on Monday with 382 fresh infections being detected from 5,352 samples in the last 24 hours, according to data shared by state health department.

While Odisha now has 3,032 COVID patients with 276 more having recovered from the infection, the test positivity rate (TPR) stands at 7.1%. The number of tests has also dropped below 6,000. The state had been testing 6,000-7,000 samples for last few days.

It is drop of 27% since Sunday when the COVID graph breached the 500-mark, the highest single-day spike since mid-August last year, with a TPR of 7.5%. Five districts – Sundargarh, Cuttack, Nabarangpur, Balangir and Mayurbhanj – accounted for more than 70 per cent of the caseload.

Meanwhile, the weekly TPR has shot above 45% in Sambalpur. The western district has the highest TPR of 48%, followed by 25 per cent in Subarnapur, 21% in Sundargarh, 14.1% in Kalahandi and 13.94% in Nuapada.

Odisha has so far confirmed three COVID deaths this year. Around 1.3 per cent of patients have been hospitalised.

INDIA COVID UPDATE

India saw a huge drop in daily COVID-19 cases as the country logged 7,178 fresh cases in the past 24 hours. Active cases also fell to 65,683 from 67,806. The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 5,31,345, with 16 fatalities.