Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded a slight decrease in daily COVID cases on Saturday with 63 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, against 84 cases on Friday and 77 cases on Thursday.
According to the I & PR Department, 37 cases are from quarantine and 26 cases are from local contacts. Among them, 10 are in the 0-18 age group. The state now has 605 active cases.
Here is the district-wise tally of new cases:
1. Balasore: 2
2. Balangir: 1
3. Cuttack: 12
4. Ganjam: 1
5. Jagatsinghpur: 2
6. Jajpur: 1
7. Kalahandi: 2
8. Khurda: 11
9. Koraput: 1
10. Mayurbhanj: 3
11. Nabarangpur: 3
12. Nuapada: 3
13. Puri: 4
14. Rayagada: 1
15. Sambalpur: 2
16. Sundargarh: 12
Besides, only two are from the state pool.
With 9,039 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.69 per cent.
