Bhubaneswar on Monday registered 291 new Covid-19 positive cases. With this, the State capital city’s total tally increased to 91,641.Out of the new cases, 205 were local contacts and 86 quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 19 cases in Patia. 18 in Khandagiri, 12 each in Rasulgarh and Chandrasekharpur, nine in Old Town and eight in Saheed Nagar.Currently, the active cases stood at 1,147 in the city.
Meanwhile, five more patients succumbed to the disease in the city, increasing the total death toll to 475. However, 357 persons recovered on the day, increasing the total recoveries to 89,998.