Odisha Reports Another COVID Case After A Week; Active Tally Touches 3

Bhubaneswar: Another person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the number of active patients in the state to three.

Sources said on Tuesday that the health condition of all three patients is stated to be normal and they are undergoing treatment. While the first COVID-19 case in the state was detected on December 3, another person had tested positive on December 19, sources said.

The fresh cases have been detected in the state amid an increase in sub-variant JN.1 cases in different parts of the country.

Meanwhile, 628 new COVID-19 cases were detected in the last 24 hours in other states, taking the total number of patients to above 4000 in the country. One person has reportedly died of Coronavirus in Kerala on Monday.

The Odisha government has already issued an advisory, urging several category of people to use facemasks while going out in view of the emergence of JN.1 variant of Covid-19.

The Health and Family Welfare department has said that elderly people and those with co-morbidities have been advised to use facemask while going out. The information was shared by the department on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle.

In its tweet, the Health department also advised elderly people and those with co-morbidities to avoid visiting crowded places as well.

With the cases of new JN.1 variant of COVID being reported in different parts of the country, concerns are being expressed over a spike in the cases.