Out of the 36 persons testing Covid-19 positive in Malkangiri district on Tuesday, as many as 29 were BSF jawans, said district Collector Manish Agarwal.
The jawans had returned from States like Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and were accommodated at the various temporary medical camps (TMCs) in the district.
Of the remaining seven positive cases, four had returned from Tamil Nadu and New Delhi and were lodged at a TMC and three were under home quarantine after returning from New Delhi.
“Active contact tracing and follow-up action is being carried out,” said Agarwal.
The district has so far reported a total of 96 positive cases, including 44 active and 52 recovered cases.