The State’s Covid-19 count witnessed the sharpest hike as a record single-day 101 people tested positive on Wednesday. With this record number of new cases, the total number of patients surged to 538.
While the hardest-hit Ganjam registered 52 cases, 33 were reported from Baleswar district, seven each from Jajpur and Sundagarh districts and two from Keonjhar district.
The 33 cases in Baleswar district included 24 Surat returnees, three West Bengal returnees, two Bengaluru returnees, three local cases and one case from a containment zone, according to the Information and Public Relations Department.
The seven cases in Sundargarh district included all primary contacts in the Rourkela containment zones.
Ganjam continued to be on top of the chart with 210 cases, followed by Jajpur with 90, Jajpur 71, Khordha 50, Bhadrak 31, Sundargarh 23 and Angul 15 cases. However, amid the spurt in cases as many as 27 patient tested negative for the virus and recovered on the day.
They included nine patients from Baleswar, eight from Bhubaneswar, four from Bhadrak, two each from Ganjam and Sundargarh, and one each from Koraput and Keonjhar districts.
With this, the number of recovered patients rose to 143. Bhubaneswar, which had initially emerged as a hotspot with 50 cases, has now only three active cases.