Even as the Covid-19 positive cases continued to decline in the State, the deaths due to the disease have kept climbing in the past one week.
The State on Tuesday reported 17 deaths, which pushed the total toll to 8,629.
Four deaths were reported from Cuttack district, two each from Khordha and Puri and one each from Angul, Baleswar, Bhadrak, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Malkangiri and Rayagada.
However, the Covid-19 positive cases remained below 4,000 for the second consecutive day with 3,086 new cases reported from the 30 districts and the State pool. With this, the total tally increased to 12,52,326.
Among the freshly-infected were 454 children in the age group of 0 to 18 years.
In the last 24 hours, 59,286 samples were tested and the test positivity rate (TPR) was 5.2 per cent.
The active cases stood at 42,098.
Notably, the State had recorded 3329 Covid cases on Monday.
Of the new cases, 1,797 were detected from quarantine and 1,289 local contacts.
Khordha district registered the highest 652 cases followed by Cuttack with 325, Sundargarh 216, Jajpur 149, Nayagarh 110, Mayurbhanj 109, Nuapada 106, Nabarangpur 84, Angul 82, Kalahandi 77, Bhadrak 77, Balangir 76, Baleswar 76, Samblapur 75, Jagatsinghpur 74, Dhenkanal 71, Deogarh 69, Jharsuguda 69, Gajapati 63, Kendrapada 49, Ganjam 46, Koraput 44, Puri 42, Rayagada 40, Keonjhar 39, Bargarh 36, Subarnapur 35, Malkangiri 30, Kandhamal 24 and Boudh 16.
Besides, 125 cases were reported from the State pool.