The State on Sunday reported a decreased Covid-19 caseload of 853 in the 30 districts and the State pool. With this, the total tally rose to 10,00,937.
Notably, the State had recorded 911 positives on Saturday.And again, out of the new cases, 100 children in the age group of 0 and 18 years tested positive.A total of 67,834 samples were tested in the last 24 hours and the test positivity rate (TPR) was 1.25 per cent. The active cases in the State stood at 9,302. Out of the new cases, 496 were from quarantine and 357 local contacts. Khordha district reported the day's highest 286 cases followed by Cuttack with 140, Baleswar 46, Puri 35, Jajpur 33, Jagatsinghpur 32, Angul 29, Nayagarh 22, Kendrapada and Mayurbhanj 21 each, Sambalpur 19, Bhadrak 18, Keonjhar 16, Deogarh 13, Bargarh and Sundargarh 12 each, Ganjam 11, Dhenkanal 10, Rayagada four, Kalahandi and Koraput three each, Balangir and Jharsuguda two each and Gajapati, Kandhamal, Malkangiri and Subarnapur one each. Besides, 59 positives were detected from the State Pool.Meanwhile, another 66 patients succumbed to the disease, surging the total death toll to 7,358 in the State, the Health and Family Welfare Department said. The maximum 13 deaths each were reported from Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur districts followed by Dhenkanal 11, Angul and Kendrapada eight each, Jajpur five, Baleswar, Bhadrak and Khordha three each and Nabarangpur and Nayagarh one each.However, another 1,078 patients recovered on the day increasing the total recoveries to 9,85,302.