The number of COVID-19 positive cases in the State has mounted to 48 after four more people tested positive for the deadly virus late on Friday night.
Of these four new cases, three are residents of Bhubaneswar and the other belongs to Kalahandi district.
Kalhandi Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) Jaggu Agarwal said the second patient (State’s case 45) of the district got infected from the first one purportedly while playing cricket. Meanwhile, the travel history of the case No. 45 released by the State Government said he came in contact with the person with a travel history to Bahrain on April 4, was shifted to institutional quarantine centre at Sosia on April 5, sample collected and tested positive on April 9 and shifted to the Ashwini Hospital in Cuttack on April 9.
The Government has also released the travel history of cases 46, 47 and 48. Two minor girls from Jharpada in Bhubaneswar, one aged five years and another nine years, and their 37-year-old mother have also tested positive. As per the Government data, all three are close relatives of patient number 42 of Jharpada.
Their travel history stated that they had remained at home from March 22 to April 3, gone AIIMS, Bhubaneswar on April 4-5 to visit case No. 42, remained in home quarantine from April 6 to 9, sample collected on April 8, test positive on April 9 and admitted to the KIMS COVID Hospital on April 10.