Odisha Logs 653 New COVID Cases; Active Tally 5213

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported another 653 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active tally to 5,213 on Wednesday.

According to the I & PR department, 384 cases are from quarantine, 269 local contacts. Among them, 128 are in the age group of 0-18 years.

Here are the district-wise figures of the cases:

1. Angul: 3
2. Balasore: 9
3. Bargarh: 27
4. Bhadrak: 4
5. Balangir: 39
6. Boudh: 4
7. Cuttack: 19
8. Deogarh: 4
9. Dhenkanal: 1
10. Gajapati: 7
11. Ganjam: 15
12. Jagatsinghpur: 5
13. Jajpur: 14
14. Jharsuguda: 6
15. Kalahandi: 30
16. Kandhamal: 15
17. Kendrapada: 7
18. Keonjhar: 2
19. Khurda: 96
20. Koraput: 13
21. Mayurbhanj: 33
22. Nawarangpur: 14
23. Nayagarh: 17
24. Nuapada: 8
25. Puri: 3
26. Rayagada: 4
27. Sambalpur: 46
28. Sonepur: 14
29. Sundargarh: 173

Besides, 21 are from the state pool.

With these cases being detected from 18,148 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 3.59 per cent.