Bhubaneswar: After an upward trend in COVID cases for two consecutive days, the daily count saw a marginal drop on Friday with 214 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours against 286 on Thursday and 260 on Wednesday.
According to the I & PR department, 129 new cases are from quarantine and 85 local contacts. Among them, 30 are in the age group of 0-18 years.
Here are the district-wise figures of the cases:
1. Angul: 1
2. Balasore: 3
3. Balangir: 10
4. Boudh: 3
5. Cuttack: 28
6. Deogarh: 2
7. Dhenkanal: 6
8. Gajapati: 2
9. Ganjam: 2
10. Jagatsinghpur: 6
11. Jajpur: 3
12. Kalahandi: 11
13. Kandhamal: 2
14. Kendrapada: 7
15. Keonjhar: 3
16. Khurda: 56
17. Koraput: 2
18. Mayurbhanj: 3
19. Nayagarh: 5
20. Nuapada: 8
21. Puri: 3
22. Rayagada: 2
23. Sambalpur: 9
24. Sonepur: 6
25. Sundargarh: 22
Besides, nine are from the state pool.
With these cases being detected from 13,634 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 1.56%. Odisha now has 1,664 active cases.
