Coronavirus

Positivity Rate Turns ‘RED’ In Khurda & Sundargarh As COVID Cases Spiral In Odisha; Check Details

By
OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: After a gap of almost 5 months, the daily COVID caseload in Odisha breached the 1000-mark on January 5 with 1,216 people testing positive for the virus. Cases have spiralled since then with 1,897 on January 6, 2,703 on January 7 and 3,679 on January 8.

The test positivity rate has also gone up from 1.13 per cent on January 4 to 5.51 per cent on January 8.

While Odisha has contributed to 2.59 per cent of the total cases in the country, the test positivity rate in Sundargarh (10.8 per cent) and Khurda (9.9 per cent) have pushed these two districts to the Red Zone. Deogarh (6.1) and Sambalpur (5.4) are in the Orange Zone.

Khurda is also in the Red Zone with 4137 active cases while Sundargarh at 1592 is in the Orange Zone.

Notably, Khurda reported 1223 new cases in the last 24 hours followed by Sundargarh at 582. This has been the trend for the last few days.

On January 7, Bhubaneswar with 638 cases and Cuttack with 157 cases had contributed to 29.41 per cent of the total cases in the state. Bhubaneswar had 1887 active cases till yesterday.

 

OB Bureau

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