Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded a slight increase in daily COVID cases on Sunday with 77 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, against 63 cases on Saturday, 84 cases on Friday, and 77 cases on Thursday.
According to the I & PR Department, 45 cases are from quarantine and 32 cases are from local contacts. Among them, seven are in the 0-18 age group. The state now has 606 active cases.
Here is the district-wise tally of new cases:
1. Bargarh: 3
2. Balangir: 2
3. Cuttack: 5
4. Deogarh: 3
5. Ganjam: 2
6. Jagatsinghpur: 2
7. Jajpur: 1
8. Jharsuguda: 1
9. Khurda: 9
10. Koraput: 3
11. Mayurbhanj: 1
12. Nayagarh: 1
13. Nuapada: 2
14. Puri: 9
15. Sambalpur: 10
16. Sundargarh: 21
Besides, only two are from the state pool.
With 9,252 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 0.83 per cent.
