Five more persons succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday, increasing the death toll to 34 in the State. Three deaths were reported from Ganjam district and two from Khordha district.
“Regret to inform that five Covid positive patients passed away while under treatment in hospital. It included a 51-year-old man of Bhubaneswar, a suffering from pleural tuberculosis, a 64-year-old man of Bhubaneswar, suffering from diabetes, a 50-year-old man of Ganjam, a suffering from diabetes and hypertension, a 27-year old man and a 35-year-old man, also Ganjam district,” the Health and Family Welfare Department said.
And as many as 495 new positive cases were detected on the day. With this, the total positive cases surged to 8,601. While 355 were from quarantine centres, 140 were local contacts.
For the second consecutive day, Ganjam district recorded the day’s highest cases of 261 followed by followed by Khordha 50, Sundargarh 36, Mayurbhanj 28, Angul 24, Puri 18, Baleswar and Cuttack 13 each, Jagatsinghpur and Bhadrak 12 each, Nabarangpur 11, Jharsuguda and Kandhamal eight each, Koraput and Malkangiri five each, Gajapati seven, Bargarh two and Dhenkanal and Nayagarh one each. However, 229 more patients recovered from the disease on Saturday, increasing the total recoveries to 5,934. The highest 91 recovered in Ganjam district, followed by 29 in Khordha, 26 in Gajapati, 15 in Jharsuguda, 12 in Balangir, 11 each in Jagatsinghpur and Mayurbhanj, eight in Jajpur, six in Kendrapada, five in Keonjhar, four each in Cuttack and Sundargarh, three each in Bhadrak and Nayagarh and one in Bargarh.