Odisha's COVID-19 death toll Crossed the 1,800-mark on Saturday as four more patients succumbed to the disease, while 335 new cases pushed the tally to 3,23,364, a health department official said.
Four fresh fatalities - two from Sundargarh and one each from Balasore and Malkangiri districts- increased the coronavirus toll in the state to 1,802.
Khurda district, of which Bhubaneswar is a part, has accounted for 308 fatalities, followed by Ganjam (245), Sundargarh (154), Cuttack (137) and Puri (110).
Fifty-three COVID-19 patients have also died due to comorbidities, the official said.
Of the 335 new cases, 193 were reported from different quarantine centres and the rest detected during contact tracing.
Sundargarh recorded the maximum number of new cases at 52, followed by Khurda at 31 and Mayurbhanj at 29. Three districts - Gajapati, Kandhamal and Subarnapur - did not register any case since Friday, he said.
Odisha currently has 3,231 active cases, while 3,18,278 people have recovered from the disease so far.
Over 63.45 lakh samples have been tested for COVID-19 in the state, including 32,998 on Friday, and the positivity rate stands at 5.1 per cent, he added.