The total number of coronavirus cases soared to 414 with 37 more persons testing positive on Monday in the State. The highest number of 29 cases was again reported from the worst-hit Ganjam district.
In a first, Ganjam breached the 150-mark recording a total of 154 cases after detection of the 29 new cases.
Sundargarh district reported three cases while one case each was reported from Kendrapada, Boudh, Jajpur and Cuttack districts.
The persons found positive in Kendrapada district was on quarantine at an isolation centre in Rajnagar block. He has a travel history to Surat and returned to the State recently. He tested positive for the virus on Sunday night.
The patient was shifted to the Covid Hospital and samples of other inmates of the quarantine centre have been collected, informed Kendrapada Collector Samarth Verma.
The person testing positive in Cuttack belongs to Tigiria block of Athagarh sub-division. He is a migrant worker and had returned from Surat recently and lodged at a quarantine facility from May 3.
Later, getting information, Tigiria Tehsildar Paresh Kumar Nayak, BDO Diptimayee Behera, IIC Rabindra Bhujabal, SDMO Dr Bijaya Mishra, and Sarpanch Arun Nayak made arrangements to shift the patient to a Covid Hospital. This is the second case to be reported from Tigiria block. The earlier case had been detected on May 5.
However, in the midst of the soaring virus cases, as many as 17 persons in the State recovered from the disease on Monday.
The cases include seven patients of Sundargarh, five of Khordha, three of Bhadrak and two in Baleswar. The total recoveries now stand at 85 in the State.