The State recorded two more Covid-19 deaths on Sunday, increasing the total toll to 36. The two deaths were reported from Gajapati and Sundargarh districts.
“Regret to inform of the demise of a 40-year-old Covid positive man of Gajapati district and a 64-year-old positive man of Sundargarh district, who was also suffering from diabetes,” the Health and Family Welfare Department said.
However, another woman patient also died on the day due to other health complications.
“Regret to inform of the demise of a 45-year-old Covid positive woman of Baleswar district due to massive hemorrhagic exudative pleural effusion,” the department added.
Meanwhile, for the third consecutive day, infections continued to shoot up with as many as 469 new positive cases registered on the day, taking the State’s total tally to 9,070.
Of the new cases, 317 were detected from quarantine centres and 152 were local contacts. While 465 cases were reported from 20 districts, the remaining four ere the NDRF personnel who had returned from Amphan duty in West Bengal.
Ganjam district for the third consecutive day recorded the day’s highest of 116 cases followed by Cuttack district with 94, Sundargarh 66, Khordha 27, Jajpur 25, Keonjhar 25, Nayagarh 24, Sambalpur 13, Bhadrak 16, Gajapati 12, Angult 11, Baleswar eight, Puri eight, Mayurbhanj six, Kendrapada five, Balangir three and Kalahandi two.
However, 290 more patients recovered from the disease on Sunday, taking the total recoveries to 6,224.
The maximum number of 99 recovered in Ganjam district, 56 in Gajapati, 33 from Jharsuguda, 16 each in Cuttack and Nabarangpur, 15 in Baleswar, 11 in Sambalpur, 10 in Khordha, eight in Mayurbhanj, six each in Keonjhar and Puri, five in Jagatsinghpur, three in Nayagarh, two each in Baragarh and Koraput and one each in Jajpur and Sundargarh.