Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded a slight increase in daily COVID cases on Sunday with 77 people testing positive for the viru
s 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.
