Bhubaneswar on Friday registered 318 new Covid-19 positive cases, with which the total tally in the city surged to 97,488. Out of the new cases, 256 were local contacts and 65 quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 21 cases in Khandagiri, 20 in Patia, 12 in Saheed Nagar, 11 in Nayapalli, 10 each in Laxmisagar abd Dumduma and eight each in Chandrasekharpur and Rasulgarh.
The active cases stood at 1,797. Meanwhile, 15 more patients succumbed to the disease in the city, pushing the total death toll to 711.
However, 235 persons recovered on the day, increasing the total recoveries to 94,959.