State capital city Bhubaneswar on Friday registered 345 new Covid-19 positive cases. With this, the total tally increased to 90,909. Out of the new cases, 274 were local contacts and 71quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 19 cases in Chandrasekharpur, 18 in Khandagiri, 17 each in Patia and Nayapalli, 10 in Rasulgarh, nine each in Patrapada and Mancheswar and eight each in Saheed Nagar, Old Town, AIIMS Nagar and Jharpada.
Currently, the active cases stood at 1,307 in the city. Meanwhile, five more patients succumbed to the disease in the city, with which total death toll rose to 460. However, 353 persons recovered on day, increasing total recoveries to 89,120.