Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID-19 caseload breached the 6000-mark on Thursday as Odisha saw the highest-ever spike of 6164 new infections in the last 24 hours.
The state had been reporting over 40,00 cases for the past two days.
According to the I & PR department, these fresh cases have been reported from all 30 districts. Among them, 3575 are from quarantine: and 2589 local contact cases.
Khurda registered the highest number of 1132 cases followed by Nuapada (459), Kalahandi (452) and Sundargarh (427).
District-wise cases:
1. Angul: 136
2. Balasore: 78
3. Bargarh: 236
4. Bhadrak: 71
5. Balangir: 226
6. Boudh: 38
7. Cuttack: 360
8. Deogarh: 31
9. Dhenkanal: 17
10. Gajapati: 55
11. Ganjam: 135
12. Jagatsinghpur: 63
13. Jajpur: 154
14. Jharsuguda: 355
15. Kalahandi: 452
16. Kandhamal: 23
17. Kendrapada: 48
18. Keonjhar: 205
19. Khurda: 1132
20. Koraput: 45
21. Malkangiri: 16
22. Mayurbhanj: 136
23. Nabarangpur: 207
24. Nayagarh: 99
25. Nuapada: 459
26. Puri: 286
27. Rayagada: 105
28. Sambalpur: 229
29. Sonepur: 99
30. Sundargarh: 427
31. State Pool: 241
These cases have been detected from 44,983 samples tested for COVID-19, which has pushed the daily positivity rate in the state to 13.7 per cent from 12.58 the previous day.
With this, Odisha now has 35,075 active cases.
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