The State continued registering a downtrend in the daily Covid cases for the third consecutive day with 981 persons infected in 29 districts and the State pool on Saturday. With this, the total tally inreased to 13,12,116.
Among the newly-infected were 166 children in the age group of 0 to18 years.
The State had recorded 1,020 Covid cases on Friday.
Out of the new cases, 575 were from quarantine and 406 were local contacts.
Sundargarh district reported the highest 259 new cases followed by Khordha with 150, Mayurbhanj 84, Sambalpur 71, Bargarh 44, Cuttack 38, Kalahandi 30, Nabarangpur 28, Nayagarh 24, Subarnapur 23, Jharsuguda 20, Kandhamal and Jajpur 19 each, Bhadrak 44, Keonjhar and Nuapada 10 each, Jagatsinghpur eight, Dhenkanal three and Malkangiri one.
Besides, 32 positives were reported from the State pool.
The active cases numbered 6,632.
On Friday, 1,136 had patients recovered, taking the total recoveries to 12,96,293 in the State.