Bhubaneswar: On Friday, 1,833 cases of coronavirus have been reported in Odisha in a single day. A health officer has told that the death toll has reached 247 due to the death of 12 more people in the state. The officer said that new cases of the virus have come out from 29 districts of Odisha, due to which the number of cases of coronavirus has reached 42,550 in the state. He said that 1,118 new cases were reported from different centres while 715 more infected persons came to the notice while detecting the contact of infected people.

Officer told that Khurda district under Bhubaneswar has the highest number of 298 new cases. After this, 279 cases were reported in Ganjam, 152 in Raigad, 124 in Cuttack and 110 in Sundergarh. In the remaining districts, less than one hundred new patients of this global epidemic came out. He told that 3-3 people have lost their lives in Ganjam and Sundergarh districts. While 1 patient died in Mayurbhanj, Kendrapada, Sambalpur, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal and Gajapati each.

The officer has further told that in Mayurbhanj and Dhenkanal, the first case of death came from Corona. He said that out of 247 deaths due to corona infection in the state so far, maximum 123 were killed in Ganjam, 31 in Khurda, 16 in Sundergarh, 15 in Gajapati and 11 in Cuttack. The official said that 45 other Corona patients died due to some other disease. He said that with the arrival of new cases, 15,370 people are still corona infected in the state, while 26,888 people have been cured of this infectious disease.

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