The death toll due to Covid-19 infection in the State continued to remain high with 43 more patients succumbing to the virus in the last 24 hours as reported on Monday. This pushed the total death toll to 3,930.
While nine deaths were reported from Khordha district, including five in Bhubaneswar, five each were from Bargarh, Nayagarh and Puri, four from Sundargarh, three each from Bhadrak, Cuttack and Ganjam, two from Dhenkanal and one each from Baleswar, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Sambalpur.
Meanwhile, the State registered 3,319 new positive cases in the last 24 hours in 30 districts and the State pool, which surging the total caseload to 9,03,789. In the last 24 hours, a total of 66,109 samples had been tested and the test positivity rate stood at 5.02 per cent. Of the new positive cases, 1,896 were from quarantine and 1,423 were local contacts.
Cuttack district reported the day’s highest 566 cases followed by Khordha with 440, Baleswar 397, Mayurbhanj 199, Jajpur 194, Puri 175, Bargarh 163, Kendrapada 134, Jagatsinghpur 130, Angul 116 and Nayagarh 111.
As many as 19 districts reported cases below 100. Those were Malkangiri 71, Dhenkanal 69, Keonjhar 65, Koraput 59, Bargarh 47, Rayagada 43, Nabarangpur 39, Sundargarh 36, Kalahandi 31, Sambalpur 29, Kandhamal 23, Ganjam 18, Subarnapur 17, Boudh 16, Gajapati 12, Jharsuguda 11, Balangir 10, Deogarh and Nuapada four each.Besides, 82 cases were reported from State pool. However, another 3,385 patients recovered on day, increasing total recoveries to 8,70,787.