The coronavirus death toll rose to five in the State when a person succumbed to the disease in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.
“A 75-year-old patient of Cuttack suffering from severe comorbidities and chronic pulmonary disease was admitted to the AIIMS Bhubaneswar Emergency but unfortunately passed away within a few hours. Later, he was tested and found to be positive for Covid-19,” said the Health and Family Welfare Department.
Meanwhile, on the day, 102 more positive cases were reported in the State. Of these, Jajpur district registered 31 cases, Jagatsinghpur 23, Bhadrak 21, Kendrapada eight, Khordha four (including two in Bhubaneswar) and Puri and Cuttack districts four each, Angul two, Baleswar two, Sambalpur two and Nayagarh one.
Surprisingly, hotspot Ganjam didn’t report a single case in the last 24 hours.
In Jajpur, 30 West Bengal returnees and a Telangana returnee tested positive, taking the district’s total to 168.
Bhadrak’s total rose to 95 after detection of 21 new cases. All are in quarantine centres. While 12 of them had returned from West Bengal, one returned from Andhra Pradesh, two from Tamil Nadu and six from Gujarat. Two Surat returnees also tested positive in Angul.
Out of the 23 found positive in Jagatsinghpur, 20 had returned from West Bengal while the rest three are Gujarat returnees. All were in quarantine centres.
Two cases reported in the Khordha quarantine centres are Gujarat returnees. Two locals in Baleswar also tested positive. Of the four cases in Cuttack, three returnees are in quarantine centres (including one each Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamilnadu) while the other is a local case. Another case reported in Nayagarh is a Suratreturnee.
However, the total number of recovered cases rose to 307 when 30 more patients recovered on Tuesday. Of these, 20 are from Ganjam, five from Kendrapada, two each from Baleswar and Bhadrak and one from Nayagarh.