Out of the 26 new Covid-19 cases reported in Khordha district on Wednesday, 12 were detected in Bhubaneswar. Of these 12 cases, eight were local contacts and four from home quarantine, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
With this, the capital city’s total Covid-19 tally rose to 332 with 135 active cases and four deaths so far.
The four home quarantine cases included a 26-year-old man and a 17-year-old of boy Tankapani Road with travel history of West Bengal, a 26-year-old man of Shailashree Vivahr with travel history of Bengaluru, and a 25-year-man of Khandagiri near Triputi Residency with travel history to Pune.
The eight local contact cases included two cases of Dumduma Raghnath Nagar Basti with a travel history of Ganjam, one case of Dumduma Sukhar Vihar Basti with a travel history of Ganjam, a woman of Sriram Nagar with travel history to Ganjam, a male employee of a private hospital, a resident of Niladri Vihar Sector-2 working as a pump driver of BDA, a man of Jagamara and a woman of Unit-2
Further contact tracing was underway while primary contacts and nearby houses were being quarantined and sanitised and would be under active surveillance, the BMC tweeted.
Meanwhile, the neighbouring Cuttack city reported seven new Covid-19 cases, taking the total tally to 46 there.
All the cases were local contacts. While six of them are linked with a previous case of the Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC), one was detected from Mahanadi Vihar (a family member of an earlier case reported from the area), sources said.
Further contact tracing, testing, and sanitisation of the concerned areas were underway, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) said.