Bhubaneswar: Odisha has minimum fatality rate due to COVID-19 in the country with 0.46 per cent compared to national figure of 3.1 per cent.
Revealing this to mediapersons, Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy on Monday said Odisha is also far behind the national average in COVID occurrence cases. While national average is 71.27 cases per million, the State has so far reported 19.04 cases per million.
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Similarly in COVID testing, Odisha has better ratio than the national rate. While 1,706 cases per million are tested in India, Odisha tests 2,082 cases per million, Tripathy said.
