After a long gap of over 40 days Odisha has reported less than 10 fatalities on Monday, November 2. Nine fatalities has been reported in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 1,340. Sundargarh district has recorded three new deaths while one each died to the infection in Khurda, Cuttack, Puri, Kalahandi, Sambalpur and Sonepur. The State recorded its lowest Covid deaths on a day on Monday after September 21. 

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This month has reported 20 deaths in the last 48 hours, the fatality count has declined in the last few days. The average number of fatalities reported in the last four days remained around 11 against 14 in the previous week. Of 43,332 tests done on the day, 1,389 tested positive increasing the Covid tally of the State to 2,93,214. The test positive rate remains at 3.2%. 

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Of the 1389 cases 798 were related to quarantine while 591 linked to local transmission. Khurda district registered the highest number of 142 cases followed by Cuttack which gives 101 and Sundargarh contributing 100 infections. The State now has 12,730 active cases as 2,79,091 patients infected with the virus have recovered, the health officials said. 

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