Bhubaneswar: The number of COVID-19 cases has come down in Odisha for the third consecutive day, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department informed on Tuesday.
H&FW Additional Chief Secretary, Pradipta Mahapatra said despite more number of tests, positive cases have shown a downward trend in the last three days.
“The number of positive cases in the stat
e on August 16 was 2,924 which came down to 2,244 on August 17 and 2,239 today (August 18), which is a positive sign,” he said.
Mahapatra further said a total of 50,525 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the state on Monday. These included 45,343 antigen, 5,106 RT-PCR and 76 TrueNat tests.
Odisha reported 50,241 tests on Sunday and 52,795 tests on Saturday.
Following are the district-wise number and types of COVID-19 tests done in the last 24 hours.
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