Even though the single-day Covid-19 cases continued to dip in the State, the casualties still remained a cause of great concern. On Saturday, 40 new fatalities pushed the total death toll to 2,952.
Khordha district reported six deaths, including three in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj four each, Angul, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi and Boudh three each; Balangir, Bargarh and Deogarh two each and Ganjam, Sambalpur, Kandhamal and Nayagarh one each, the Health and Family Welfare Department said.
On the day, the State registered 7,395 new positive cases in the 30 districts and the State pool. With this, the total tally surged to 8,06,094, the Information and Public Relations Department said.
Of the new cases, 4,169 cases were reported from quarantine while the rest 3,226 were local contact cases.
Khordha district again registered the daily maximum 1,069 cases followed by Cuttack with 868, Jajpur 516, Angul 443.
Mayurbhanj 384, Puri 356, Kendrapada 341, Jagatsinghpur 288, Baleswar 285, Sundargarh 267, Nayagarh 243, Bhadrak 238, Nabarangpur 196, Bargarh 171, Kalahandi 166, Koraput 161, Keonjhar 158, Sambalpur 137, Boudh 133, Rayagada 125 and Malkangiri 110, Subarnapur 91, Dhenkanal and Balangir 81 each, Kandhamal 76, Ganjam 69.
Deogarh 57, Gajapati 52 and Nuapada 22.Besides, 145 cases were reported from the State pool.
The active cases in the State stood at 78,687 while the cumulative samples tested were 1,21,1,1143. Till now, 7,24,402 patients have recovered in the State.