The State recorded two more Covid-19 deaths on Monday, increasing the total death toll to 38. The deaths were reported from Ganjam and Jajpur districts.
“Regret to report the demise of two Covid positive patients while under treatment in hospital. The 77-year-old man of Ganjam district, who was suffering from hypertension, succumbed to the virus. Another man aged 64 from Jajpur district also passed away. He was a diabetes patient,” said the Health and Family Welfare Department in a tweet.
Meanwhile, 456 more persons tested positive for the virus on the day, increasing the total cases to 9,526. Of the total cases detected, 309 were reported from various quarantine centres and 147 local contact cases.
Ganjam district again reported the day’s highest 166 cases, followed by Jajpur with 57, Bargarh 33, Nabarangpur 24, Jagatsinghpur 23, Khordha 21, Sundargarh 20, Kandhamal 13, Koraput 10, Mayurbhanj eight, Kendrapada five, Nayagarh four, Puri and Kandhamal three each and Dhenkanal, Gajapati and Kalahandi one each.
However, 262 more patients recovered on Monday, taking the total recoveries to 6,486. The maximum number of 73 patients recovered in Ganjam district, 49 patients in Gajapati, 25 in Jagatsinghpur, 16 in Rayagada, 15 in Cuttack, 14 in Baragarh. 13 in Khordha, 12 each in Bhadrak and Puri, eight in Kendrapada, four each in Jajpur and Sundargarh, three each in Angul, Baleswar, Nayagarh and Nabarangpur and one each in Boudh, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Koraput and Mayurbhanj districts.