The Covid-19 toll surged to 1,425 in the State following 15 more persons’ death reported from nine districts on Sunday, the Health and Family Welfare Department said.
Three more succumbed to the disease in Khordha and Sambalpur districts, two each in Bargarh and Balangir and one each in Cuttack, Deogarh, Ganjam, Jharsuguda and Sundargarh. The deceased in Khordha were a 59-year-old man, a 62 -year-old woman (both of Bhubaneswar) and a 65-year-old man. The deaths in Sambalpur were of a 72-year-old man, a 65-year-old man and a 63-year-old man. The causalities in Balangir were a 39-year-old and a 45-year-old man. The fatalities in Bargarh were a 70-year-old man and a 34-year-old man.
The other deceased were an 86-year-old man of Cuttack district, a 68-year-old man of Deogarh, a 62-year-old man of Ganjam, a 77-year-old man of Jharsuguda and a 50-year-old man of Sundargarh.Meanwhile, with 1,434 positive cases recorded in all 30 districts and the State pool, the positives’ tally mounted to 3,01,574. Of the new cases, 833 were detected from quarantine and 601 were local contacts.Khordha district recorded the highest 144 cases followed by Cuttack 141, Baleswar 99, Sundargarh 98, Angul 90, Mayurbhanj 80, Puri 77, Jagatsinghpur 68, Balangir 66, Bargarh 65, Kendrapada 54, Keonjhar 50, Sambalpur 38, Kalahandi and Nuapada 35 each, Jaipur 33, Bhadrak and Jharsuguda 31 each, Nabarangpur 27, Koraput 25, Dhenkanal 21, Ganjam and Nayagarh 17 each, Malkangiri 14, Kandhamal and Subarnapur 12 each, Rayagada nine, Gajapati six and Deogarh five.Besides, 28 positive cases were detected from State pool.