Odisha

Active Tally Surges Past 7K As Odisha Logs Another 1000 Plus COVID Cases

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: The active tally surged past 7,000 on Thursday as Odisha reported 1,196 fresh infections in the past 24 hours against 1,122 the previous day.

According to the I & PR department, 699 are from quarantine and 497 local transmission cases. Khurda logged the highest of 312 infections followed by Sundargarh (174) and Cuttack (109).

Here are the district-wise figures of new cases:

1. Angul: 4
2. Balasore: 19
3. Bargarh: 12
4. Bhadrak: 12
5. Balangir: 15
6. Boudh: 16
7. Cuttack: 109
8. Deogarh: 3
9. Dhenkanal: 3
10. Gajapati: 6
11. Ganjam: 2
12. Jagatsinghpur: 15
13. Jajpur: 28
14. Jharsuguda: 33
15. Kalahandi: 6
16. Kandhamal: 5
17. Kendrapada: 11
18. Keonjhar: 14
19. Khurda: 312
20. Koraput: 9
21. Mayurbhanj: 102
22. Nabarangpur: 12
23. Nayagarh: 36
24. Puri: 27
25. Rayagada: 19
26. Sambalpur: 70
27. Sonepur: 52
28. Sundargarh: 174

Besides, 70 from the state pool.

With these cases being detected from 23,078 samples, the test positivity rate stood at 5.18%. Odisha now has 7,093 active cases.

OB Bureau

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