As many as 91 persons tested positive for Covid-19 in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. With this, the capital city’s total positive cases rose to 1,343.
While 72 cases were detected from quarantine centres, 19 were local contacts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The quarantine cases included 26 workers of a flour mill in Mancheswar linked with an earlier positive case, 14 cases, all women, of IRC Village Ganapati Nagar Basti linked with an earlier case, nine cases, all employees of a construction company in Rajmahal Square linked with an earlier positive case, three cases, all women, of Nayapalli Trinath Basti, two cases, both men, of Aiginia near Police Academy linked with an earlier positive case, an eight-year-old girl of Nayapalli Behera Sahi, a 27-year-old man of Patia Swarna Vihar with a travel history of Rajasthan, a 45-year-old man of Chintamaniswar, a 19 -year-old girl of Salia Sahi Adivasi Basti, a 85-year-old woman of BJB Nagar Bijaylaxmi Colony, a 50-year-old man of Jharpada Ganesh Mandap and a 42-year-old man of Old Town Badadanda Sahi.
The local contacts included a 60-year-old woman of IRC Village N-6, a 58-year-old man of Laxmisagar, a 30-year-old man of Chandrasekharpur near Sai International School, a 54-year-old woman of Kolathia near Mangala Mandira, a 48-year-old man of Patrapada AIIMS Nagar, a 70-year-old woman of Pandara Jagannath Nagar, a 17- year-old boy of Khandagiri Tapabana Lane Basti, a 26-year-old woman employee of a private hospital, a 50-year-old man of Saheed Nagar EPF Colony, a 64-year-old man of Sailashree Vihar, a 53-year-old man of Unit-3 Kharavel Nagar (an employee of a Government office), a 25-year-old man (a security guard of a Central Government hospital), a 45-year-old man of Laxmisagar Oscar City, a 29-year-old woman of Baramunda Satabdi Nagar, a 46-year-old man of Pokhariput Kalunanda Nagar, an employee of a Government office and a 26-year-old man of Jharpada. However, 99 patients recovered on the day in the city.
In Cuttack city too, as many as 54 persons tested positive on the day. With this, the city’s tally surged to 452, including 219 active cases.
The new cases included 41 from home quarantine, 11 from institutional quarantine and two local cases. The institutional quarantine cases included a Covid warrior of the SCB Medical College Hospital and eight patients and attendants of the hospital.
The two local cases included a 23-year-old Covid warrior from Thoria Sahi.