As many as 16 Covid-19 patients succumbed to the virus on Sunday, pushing the State’s death toll to 1022, the Health and Family Welfare Department said.
Five deaths were reported from Khordha district, four from Baleswar, two from Dhenkanal and one each from Gajapati, Kendrapada, Kalahandi, Koraput and Puri districts.The deceased in Khordha were a 67-year-old woman, a 69-year-old man, a 65-year-old woman (all of Bhubaneswar) and a 58-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man.
The Baleswar fatalities were a 42-year-old woman, an 84-year-old man, a 60-year-old man and a 68-year-old man. The deaths in Dhenkanal were of a 66-year-old man and a 59-year-old man.The other deceased were a 70-year-old woman of Gajapati, a 50-year-old woman of Kalahandi, a 74-year-old man of Kendrapada, a 60-year-old woman of Koraput and a 68-year-old man of Puri. Meanwhile, the positive cases continued to show a declining trend in the State with 2,546 new cases on Sunday from all 30 districts and the State pool. This was the State’s lowest number of positive cases in over last month and a half.With the new cases, the total tally rose to 2,52,239.
Of the fresh cases, 150 were detected from quarantine and 1,042 were local contacts. Khordha reported the highest 410 cases followed by Angul 208, Sundargarh 161, Cuttack 134, Mayurbhanj 120, Baleswar 103, Bargarh 92, Jajpur 90, Nuapada 88, Jagatsinghpur 86.