As many as 365 more persons tested positive for coronavirus in the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area on Tuesday, taking positive case tally to 23,914, out of which 3,571 were active cases.
Of the new cases, 249 were local contacts and 116 were quarantine cases.The local contacts included 21 cases from Patia, 19 from Nayapalli, 12 from Saheed Nagar, nine from Laxmisagar, eight from Patrapada, seven each from Unit-8 and Unit-3, six each from Baramunda and Sahailashree Vihar and five from Bomikhal. The quarantine cases included eight from BJB Nagar, eight from Unit-8.