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Odisha saw an increase in the number of positive coronavirus cases as 26 people tested positive on Friday bringing the state’s Covid-19-affected numbers to 245. 25 of these new cases have recently returned from Surat.
19 of the 26 people who tested positive for Covid-19 are from the Ganjam district, 5 of them are from the Kendrapara district and the rest are from the Bhadrak district, the state department of health and family welfare said.
On Thursday, Odisha had registered 34 new positive cases, including 3 from the capital, Bhubaneswar.
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Of the total of 245 cases in the state, 181 are active while 62 patients have recovered. Two patients have died from Covid-19.
The state government has a new cause for concern, as a 36-year-old delivery worker working for a Biryani take-out restaurant in Patia is one of three who tested positive for Covid-19 in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.
The man had delivered packages of food in the Surya Nagar area, where a person was found to be infected.
The man had developed Covid-19-like symptoms a few days earlier, after which he called the state health helpline. His swab samples tested positive Thursday. After revelations of their positive results, health department officials began the exercise of searching for contacts of all the people who had handed over Biryani.
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In Bolangir, a 50-year-old man committed suicide by jumping into a well after his nephew tested positive for Covid-19. Sukadev Bhoi’s body from the Likhiria village in Bolangir was recovered by police and fire personnel from a well in the village with a stone tied to his lungi.
Police said Bhoi was the uncle of one of the two youths from the village who tested positive on May 1. They had returned from Tamil Nadu on March 17 and tested positive on April 28 after showing symptoms. Villagers alleged that Bhoi may have committed suicide for fear of becoming infected.
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