Another 118 new Covid-19 positive cases were detected in capital city Bhubaneswar on Thursday, taking its total to 3,472.
Of the new cases 71 cases reported from quarantine centres and 47 were local contacts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The quarantined cases included 10, all employees of the Health and Family Welfare Department linked with an earlier positive case: seven of Reserve Police Colony near the Kalinga Stadium linked with an earlier case: six of Nayapally Nua Sahi linked with an earlier case; five of Badagada linked with an earlier case; four of Surya Nagar linked with an earlier case; three of Unit-1 linked with an earlier case; three male police staffs linked with an earlier case; two of Pokhariput linked with an earlier case; two of Gajapati Nagar linked with an earlier case: two of Rasulgarh linked with an earlier case; two of Kalinga Vihar linked with an earlier case: one case of Sundarpada Gokhibaba; and a woman employee of a private hospital.
The local contacts included three of Bomikhal, three of Bharatpur, two of Kalinga Nagar, two of Old Town, two of Nayapally Brit Colony, two of Ghatikia, two of Unit-3 Railway Colony, two of Nageswar Tangi, two of Baramunda, two of Jayadev Vihar near IDBI Bank and two of Nayapally near CRPF Square.
However, 90 more patients recovered from the disease on the day, taking the total recoveries to 2,151 in the city.
On Thursday, 64 more positive cases were detected in Cuttack, taking the city’s total cases to 1,389 with 708 active ones.
Out of the new cases, 24 were from the Malgodown containment zone. All were contacts of earlier-reported cases in the area. Besides, 11 were from institutional quarantine, 19 from home quarantine and 10 local contact cases, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) said.