Bhubaneswar on Thursday recorded 340 new Covid-19 positive cases, taking the positive tally to 22,235, out of which 3,536 are active cases.Of the news cases, 256 were local contacts and 84 quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 13 each from Chandrasekharpur, Patia and Old Town, 12 from IRC Village, 10 each from Saheed Nagar, Nayapalli, Unit-9 and Shailashree Vihar, eight from Baramunda, seven each from Mancheswar and Jagamara and five from Badagada.
The quarantine cases included 13 from Patia, six from Gadakana, four of Unit-3, three each from Kharavel Nagar and Mancheswar.