Bhubaneswar: Odisha logged 526 fresh COVID-19 infections and one death in last 24 hours, the state health department informed on Friday.
With these cases being detected from 7,426 samples, the test positivity rate stands at 6.9%. The state now has 3,597 active cases with 287 more patients having recovered from the infection.
The deceased has been identified as 75 years old man of Khurda district. He was also suffering from Post Tubercular Obstructive Airways Diseases & Coronary Artery Disease, the department tweeted. With this, the state has so far confirmed five deaths due to COVID this year.
This is for the third time that Odisha reported over 500 new cases on a single day in the current wave and in last one week. It had seen 542 fresh infections, the highest single-day spike since mid-August last year, on April 26 and 502 on April 23. The daily caseload dropped to 424 the following day (April 27) and so also the test positivity rate to 5.6% with 7542 samples tested. Odisha had logged 393 and 392 new cases on Tuesday (April 25) and Monday (April 24) respectively.
According to sources, cases are concentrated in Sundargarh, Cuttack and Nabarangpur districts. Most of the cases in western Odisha districts are from border areas.
TThe weekly TPR, on the other hand, had shot above 45% in Sambalpur between April 16 and April 22. The western district has the highest TPR of 48%, followed by 25 per cent in Subarnapur, 21% in Sundargarh, 14.1% in Kalahandi and 13.94% in Nuapada.
