Bhubaneswar: COVID positive cases crossed 600 again in Odisha as 652 more people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.
The state had seen 526 positive cases on Saturday, 524 on Friday, 582 on Thursday and 593 on Wednesday.
Among the news cases, 92 (14.11 per cent) are in the age group of 0-18 years.
According to the I & PR department, 380 are from quarantine and 272 local contacts. Khurda reported the highest of 331 cases followed by Cuttack at 70. Six districts reported nil cases.
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Here are the district-wise figures of the new cases:
- Angul: 1
- Balasore: 19
- Bargarh: 3
- Bhadrak: 7
- Balangir: 3
- Cuttack: 70
- Deogarh: 1
- Dhenkanal: 1
- Gajapati: 6
- Ganjam: 6
- Jagatsinghpur: 15
- Jajpur: 10
- Jharsuguda: 1
- Kendrapada: 26
- Khurda: 331
- Koraput: 1
- Mayurbhanj: 29
- Nayagarh: 6
- Nuapada: 1
- Puri: 14
- Rayagada: 2
- Sambalpur: 10
- Sonepur: 1
- Sundargarh: 15
Besides, 73 are from the state pool.
With these cases detected from 66,643 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.97%. The TPR was 0.76% on Saturday, 0.78% on Friday, 0.75% on Thursday, 0.82% on Wednesday and 0.77% on Tuesday.
While the affected tally in the state has touched 10,31,696, Odisha now has 5,083 active cases.
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