Bhubaneswar: Amid the rising Covid-19 cases in Odisha,  States Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to make a big announcement on the conduct of the Class 10 board examination today evening.

School and Mass Education Minister, Samir Ranjan Dash said today that the Chief Minister will make the crucial announcement in the backdrop of Covid-19 surge which has raised apprehensions among the students as well as their parents across the State.

Corona Updates: Meantime, Odisha's COVID-19 caseload jumped to 3,58,342 on Thursday after 2,989 people tested positive, the biggest single-day spike this year, while two more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,935, a health department official said. Of the new infections detected in all the 30 districts, 1,733 were reported from quarantine centres and the remaining are local-contact cases.

The deaths were reported from Kalahandi and Keonjhar districts. A total of 53 other COVID-19 patients have so far died due to comorbidities. The coastal state now has 14,621 active cases, while 3,58,342 patients have thus far recovered from the disease.

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