As many as 29 new Covid-19 cases were detected in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, increasing the total positive cases to 479 in the capital city.
Official sources said that while 14 new cases were local contact, 14 were from quarantine centres, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The local cases included a 46-year- old man of Dumduma Subash Nagar Basti, a 37-year-old woman of Khandagiri Bari with travel history to hotspot district, a 24-year-old woman and a 25-year-old woman attendant of a private hospital, a 26-year-old man of Bharatpur GA Colony, a 33-year-old woman of Unit-V Kesharinagar Basti, a 42-year-old man near Unit-1 High School, a 22-year-old woman employee of a private hospital, a 37-year-old man of Badagada Brit Colony, a 29-year-old man of Bomikhal Jayadurga Nagar, a 22-year-old man of Baramunda Telco Colony, 37-year -old man of Saheed Nagar near Angan restaurant, a 29-year-old man of another district undergoing treatment in private hospital and a 36-year-old man of Hanspal undergoing treatment in a private hospital.
The home quarantine cases included a 31-year-old man of Pandara with travel history to Bihar, a 32-year-old man, a native of another district with travel history to New Delhi, a 32-year old man and a 33-year-old woman of same family of Vivekananda Marg Maharana Sahi linked with an earlier positive case, a 38-year-old man of Brahmeswar Patna linked with an earlier positive case, a 29-year-old man of Rasulgarh GGP Colony, a 26-year-old man of Nayapalli N-3 linked an earlier case, a 50-year-old woman of Mancheswar linked with an earlier case, a 56-yer-old woman of Unit-IV Rampur Basti linked with an earlier case, a 23-year-old man of Laxmisagar Square linked with an earlier case, a 22-year-old man of Laxmisgar Upar Sahi with travel history to Assam, a 38-year-old man of Laxmisagar near Kali temple linked with an earlier case, a 31-year-old man of Laxmisagar Talasahi linked with an earlier case and a 25-year-old woman employee of a private hospital with travel history to Delhi.
A 34-year-old woman employee of a Covid Hospital also tested positive.
In the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) area, five persons, including a 10-year-old boy and three women, tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. Three of them were under home quarantine, one under institutional quarantine and one a local contact. With the new cases, the total cases in Cuttack city rose to 198, including 174 active cases.