Amid the swelling numbers of coronavirus case in the State, the capital city Bhubaneswar on Sunday registered 19 new positive cases, among which six are women.
Of the new cases, nine were detected from quarantine centres and eight were local contacts. The remaining two were Covid warriors with a travel history to other districts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
With the new cases, the total positive cases in the city rose to 433 with 156 active ones.
The home quarantine cases included a 19-year-old girl and an 80-year-old woman of Nuagaon near Samantarapur linked with an earlier positive case, a 29-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, both employees of a local private hospital, a 46-year old woman and a 32-year-old man, both employees of another local private hospital linked with an earlier positive case.
Besides, a 29-year old woman employee of a Central Government hospital, a 32-year-old man of Pahala with travel history to Punjab and a 48-year-old man of Baramunda near the bus-stand with travel history to Kolkata also tested positive.
The local contact cases included a 27-year-old man of Badagada near Netaji Club, a 60-year-old woman of Bharatpur Telugu Sahi, a 21-year-old man of Ghatikia near SUM Hospital with travel history to a hotspot district, a 24-year-old man of Unit-5 near SCPCR office, a 29-year-old man of Ghatikia near CET College, a bank employee, a 32-year-old man of Sundarpada, a 31-year-old man of Palaaspalli near the city airport with travel history to a hotspot district and a 30-year-old man of Jharpada’s Mahavir Nagar.
However, 23 patients recovered from the disease in Bhubaneswar on the day. With the new recoveries, the number of the city’s recovered cases now reached 270. However, six patients have succumbed to the deadly virus in the city so far.
Meanwhile, Cuttack city reported 74 new positive cases on the day, taking the tally to 190.
Out of the new cases, 46 were detected from institutional quarantine and 28 from home quarantine. With this, the number of active cases in the city mounted to 166 while two persons have died of the disease so far.