The Covid-19 cases continued to surge in Bhubaneswar with 163 new ones reported on Sunday. With this, the capital city’s total tally of positive cases rose to 1,991.
Among the fresh cases, 104 were detected from quarantine centres and 59 were local contacts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The quarantined cases included 13 cases of Trinath Nagar Basti in Nayapally linked with an earlier case; 11 in Pandara near Hi-Tech Hospital linked with an earlier case; nine of Dumduma Sukha Vihar linked with an earlier case; eight, all men, of Kharavel Nagar linked with an earlier case; seven, all women, of Unit-4 near fish market; five of Unit-1 Akhandamani Basti; four of Shailashree Vihar linked with an earlier case; three of Baramunda HB Colony linked with an earlier case; three of Kolathia near Mangala Mandir; two of Nayapally Sitapur Basti; two of Badagada Laxmi Vihar; two of Salia Sahi Nila Chakra Nagar; and two cases of Badagada Brit Colony.
The local contacts included a 72-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman of Old Town Barik Sahi; a 40-year-old man of Naharakanta; a 46-year-old man of Old Town Mahatab Road; a 19-year-old girl and a 52-year-old woman of New Forest Park; a 32-year-old man of Mancheswar Dasa Raja Basti; a 46-year-old man of Dumduma HB Colony; a 30-year-old woman of Patia Basudev Plaza; a one-year-old girl of Palasuni Satya Vihar; a 31-year-old man of Patrapada, an attendant in a private hospital; a 30-year-old man of Bhimatangi, an employee of a Central Government hospital; a 60-year-old man of Old Town Panastota; a 32-year-old man of Sailashree Vihar; a 30-year-old woman of Aigania; a 24-year-old woman of Chandrasekharpur; a 44-year-old man of Acharya Vihar; a 26-year-old man of Kalinga Nagar; a 31-year-old man of Ghatikia; a 42- year-man of Kalinga Vihar and three woman employees of a private hospital. Cuttack city reported 57 new positive cases, with which the city’s total number of cases rose to 671.
Of the new cases, 36 were from home quarantine, 11 from institutional quarantine and eight local contacts.