SunstarTV Bureau: Today, Odisha saw a big spike in its daily COVID-19 cases with 394 persons testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. With this, the state’s total caseload up surged to 3,41,311.
Khorda district registered the highest spike of 70 cases followed by Kalahandi(43), Nuapada (40), Sundargarh (31) , Cuttack (27) , Anugul (24).
Today, the Information and Public Relation ( I& PR) Department said of the total fresh cases, detected from 25 district, 231 are quarantine cases while remaining 163 are local contact cases. Contact tracing and follow-up action is underway.
In detailed district-wise figures are as follows:
1. Angul: 24
2. Balasore: 5
3. Bargarh: 34
4. Bhadrak: 4
5. Balangir: 10
6. Cuttack: 27
7. Dhenkanal: 4
8. Ganjam: 7
9. Jagatsinghpur: 2
10. Jajpur: 7
11. Jharsuguda: 6
12. Kalahandi: 43
13. Kendrapada: 2
14. Keonjhar: 3
15. Khurda: 70
16. Koraput: 4
17. Mayurbhanj: 19
18. Nabarangpur: 3
19. Nayagarh: 1
20. Nuapada: 40
21. Puri: 12
22. Rayagada: 3
23. Sambalpur: 14
24. Sonepur: 4
25. Sundargarh: 31
In the last 24 hours, 29,260 samples were tested in the state.
With the fresh cases, the number of total active cases mounted to 2246. So far 3,37,091 patients have recovered from the disease.
