With a one-day spike of 134 new coronavirus infections, Odisha’s COVID-19 tally has gone up to 3,33,444, while one new fatality took the state’s coronavirus death toll to 1,901, a health department official said.
18 districts reported new positive cases in single digit, while 9 other districts namely Bhadrak, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Malkangiri, Koraput, Nayagarh, Nabarangpur and Rayagada, did not register any case since Sunday. The lone fatality reported in the last 24 hours was in Bargarh district, pushing the coronavirus death toll to 1901, he said.
Of the 1,901 fatalities reported so far, Khurda district of which the state capital Bhubaneswar is a part alone accounted for 334 deaths followed by Ganjam (248), Sundergarh (171), Cuttack (140) and Puri (117).
Odisha at present has 1,944 active COVID-19 cases, while 3,29,546 patients have recovered from the highly infectious disease thus far. The state has conducted over 74.02 lakh sample tests for COVID-19 including 25,642 on Sunday. Odisha’s positivity rate now is 4.5 percent, the data released by the Health and Family Welfare department said.
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