Bhubaneswar: After reporting less than 500 new COVID infections for three days, the daily caseload in Odisha saw a marginal rise on Thursday with 580 more people, including 77 children and adolescents, testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.
The infection rate in the age group of 0-18 years was 13 per cent.
The state had seen 457 new cases on Wednesday while 428 and 471 people were found infected on Tuesday and Monday respectively.
According to the I & PR Department, 336 of the new infections are from quarantine and 244 local contacts. Khurda (261) and Cuttack (87) accounted for 60 per cent of these cases. Balangir, Boudh, Gajapati, Ganjam, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur and Nuapada reported nil cases.
Here are the district-wise details of the new cases:
1. Angul: 6
2. Balasore: 17
3. Bargarh: 8
4. Bhadrak: 7
5. Cuttack: 87
6. Deogarh: 2
7. Dhenkanal: 9
8. Jagatsinghpur: 13
9. Jajpur: 29
10. Jharsuguda: 11
11. Kendrapada: 10
12. Keonjhar: 1
13. Khurda: 261
14. Koraput: 4
15. Malkangiri: 1
16. Mayurbhanj: 7
17. Nayagarh: 7
18. Puri: 18
19. Rayagada: 6
20. Sambalpur: 6
21. Sonepur: 1
22. Sundargarh: 10
Besides, 59 are the state pool.
With these cases being detected from 60,722 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.95 per cent.
Odisha now has 5963 active cases.
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