As many as 13 patients succumbed to the corona infection on Friday, pushing the State’s Covid-19 death toll to 682, the Health and Family Welfare Department said. Three fatalities were reported from Khordha district, two each from Kendrapada and Puri and one each from Cuttack, Bargarh, Balangir, Gajapati, Kandhamal and Mayurbhanj districts.
The Khordha casualties included a 49-year-old man of Bhubaneswar and a 39-year-old man and a 78-year-old woman elsewhere in the district. The deaths in Kendrapada were of a 90-year-old woman and a 97-year-old woman. The deceased in Puri were a 65-year-old man and a 79-year-old man.The other deceased were a 25-year-old man of Bargarh, a 82-year-old man of Balangir, a 65-year-old woman of Cuttack, a 53-year-old woman of Gajapati, a 50-year-old man of Mayurbhanj and a 77-year-old man of Kandhamal.
Meanwhile, 4,140 new positive cases were reported on the day from all 30 districts and the State pool. With this, the State’s total tally surged to 1,71,341.
Of the new cases, 2,466 were detected from quarantine and the rest 1,714 were local contacts.
Khordha again reported the day’s highest 688 cases followed by Cuttack 492, Jajpur 184, Puri and Sundargarh 166 each, Mayurbhanj 163, Rayagada 160, Angul 155, Baleswar 133, Sambalpur 127, Jagatsinghpur 123, Kendrapada 121, Bargarh 100, Koraput 99.