Odisha COVID19 Odisha: 681 new covid cases registered in past 24 hours
Bhubaneswar/UNI: Odisha reported 681 new covid cases and five deaths in the past 24 hours taking the total tally in the state to 10,10,753 with 8,040 fatalities.
Health and Family Welfare department sources said out of 681 new cases,398 were from the quarantine centres and 283 as local contact cases. At least 120 in the age group of 0-18 years tested positive.
Khordha district recorded the highest number of 323 cases followed by 101 in Cuttack and both the coastal districts together contributed 52.26 per cent of the new cases.
For the third consecutive day, the daily covid toll continued to remain one-digit figure. Only five deaths were reported in the past 24 hours one each from five districts in the state pushing the total fatalities in the state to 8040.
The daily test positivity rate, which has been maintaining less than 2 per cent since August 4, recorded less than one per cent (0.9 per cent) for the second time, the first being on August 29 last.
Khordha district recorded the highest test positivity rate of 2.8 per cent in the past 24 hours in the state. As many as 26 of the 30 districts in the state reported TPR of less than one per cent.
The active cases further reduced to 718 with Khordha and Cuttack district witnessing the highest number of 323 active cases in the state. These two districts together recorded a little over 50 per cent.
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