Odisha logged 816 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, of which 106 are in the age group of newborn to 18 years, taking total tally in the state to 10,04,875. The active caseload in the state now stands at 8,271., a health department official said.

However, the state's positivity rate now is 5.64 percent. A total of 1,496 people in the 0-18 age group have tested positive for COVID since August 15, when the government started mapping the pediatric population in the state. Since August 15, as many as 33 children and adolescents have died due to the infection. At least 10 children with COVID-19 infections have been hospitalised in Balasore district, officials said. Of the 816 new cases, 475 were from the quarantine centres while the remaining 341 were local contact cases.

Notably, Khurda district of which the state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the highest 291 new cases followed by Cuttack (116). While four districts Boudh,  Gajapati, Nabarangpur and Subarnapur did not report any new cases, 10 districts detected less than 10 new infections, the remaining 14 districts reported cases below 100.

The districts of Khurda and Cuttack comprise almost 50 percent of the state's new infections. The state's daily test positivity rate stands at 1.17 percent as 816 samples gave positive results of the total 69,585 samples tested on Thursday. A total of 1,78,07,557 swab samples have been cumulatively tested so far. The number of recoveries in the last 24 hours stands at 764.

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