Odisha Records Marginal Drop In COVID Cases

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported a slight drop in the daily COVID tally on Sunday with 245 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours against 269 on Saturday.

According to the I & PR department, 144 new cases are from quarantine and 101 local contacts. Among them, 43 are in the age group of 0-18 years.

Here are the district-wise figures of the cases:

1. Balasore: 3
2. Bargarh: 1
3. Bhadrak: 3
4. Balangir: 12
5. Boudh: 1
6. Cuttack: 12
7. Deogarh: 2
8. Ganjam: 4
9. Jagatsinghpur: 3
10. Jajpur: 7
11. Jharsuguda: 3
12. Kalahandi: 6
13. Kandhamal: 4
14. Kendrapada: 2
15. Keonjhar: 6
16. Khurda: 33
17. Koraput: 2
18. Mayurbhanj: 8
19. Nabarangpur: 17
20. Nayagarh: 7
21. Nuapada: 8
22. Puri: 12
23. Rayagada: 2
24. Sambalpur: 16
25. Sonepur: 5
26. Sundargarh: 58

Besides, eight are from the state pool.

With these cases being detected from 13,050 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 1.87%. Odisha now has 1,756 active cases.