Odisha Reports 155 New COVID Cases; 21% Of Them Children

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 155 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours against 183 the previous day.

The state had seen 146 cases on Tuesday, 186 and 193 new cases on Monday and Sunday respectively.

According to the I & PR department, 91 of the new infections are from quarantine and 64 local contacts. Among them, 32 are in the age group of 0-18 years. Khurda reported the highest of 84 new cases followed by Sambalpur at 10. Thirteen districts reported nil cases.

Here are the district-wise figures of new cases:

1. Angul: 1
2. Balasore: 1
3. Cuttack: 8
4. Deogarh: 7
5. Dhenkanal: 1
6. Ganjam: 4
7. Jagatsinghpur: 2
8. Jajpur: 4
9. Jharsuguda: 4
10. Kalahandi: 1
11. Kendrapada: 2
12. Khurda: 84
13. Mayurbhanj: 1
14. Puri: 1
15. Rayagada: 1
16. Sambalpur: 10
17. Sundargarh: 3

Besides, 20 from the state pool.

With these cases being detected from 61,760 samples, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.25%.

While the affected tally has touched 10,53,504, Odisha now has 1,784 active cases.