Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 count in Odisha rose to 1,50,807 after 3,913 more people, including 38 inmates from a jail and a BJD MLA, tested positive for the disease on Sunday, while 10 recent deaths brought the figure to 626 dead, one said a health department official.
The state also recorded the recovery of 3,363 coronavirus patients, bringing the total number of people cured so far to 1,18,642, which is 78.67 percent.
The state now has 31,486 active cases, the official said. The new cases were reported in all 30 districts of the state, he said.
Of the new cases, 2,348 were reported in various quarantine centers and 1,565 were detected during contact tracing, the official said.
Three new deaths were recorded in Khurda district, two in Cuttack and one in Balasore, Ganjam, Kalahandi, Mayurbhanj and Subarnapur.
Ganjam accounted for 215 of the 626 deaths in the state, followed by Khurda (92).
Fifty-three COVID-19 patients have died in the coastal state due to comorbidities, the official said.
Khurda district, of which Bhubaneswar is a part, recorded the highest number of 556 new cases, followed by Cuttack with 382 and Puri with 212.
So far, the state has tested more than 24.23 lakhs of samples for COVID-19, including 48,504 on Saturday, it said. Meanwhile, Mayurbhanj District Magistrate and Collector V Bharadwaj said 38 inmates and two Baripada Circle Jail employees tested positive for COVID. 19.
Infected inmates and employees have been isolated in the jail that houses some 600 inmates.
In a post on social media, Talcher’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA ruler, Braja Kishore Pradhan, said he was detected with the virus and asked everyone who was in contact with him in the recent past to get tested. test.
So far, 28 MLAs, including six ministers and three MPs from Odisha, have tested positive for the infection, an official source said.
As the state capital has become a major hotspot for the crown with 4,735 active cases, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched a massive door-to-door health screening in non-slum areas on Sunday. .
“Detection teams are gathering information on people with COVID-19 symptoms and travel history,” said a BMC official.
The number of coronavirus cases in the city has risen to 16,240 on Sunday with the detection of 395 new cases. Two more recent deaths also brought Bhubaneswar’s death toll to 62.
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