Cuttack: A 26-year-old doctor working as an intern with the SCB Dental College has tested positive for coronavirus.
According to sources, the doctor has been shifted to the COVID isolation ward of the SCB Hospital.
Earlier, a paediatrician working with the City Hospital in Cuttack was found infected.
On June 8, four junior doctors and eight nurses of MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur, had tested positive for the virus.
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Five days after a junior doctor tested positive for COVID-19 at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, three senior resident doctors from surgery, pathology and pharmacology departments and one more junior doctor from dermatology in the premier institute were found to have contracted the virus on June 9.
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