State capital city Bhubaneswar on Thursday registered a high of 590 new Covid-19 positive cases, with which its total tally rose to 37,794.
Out of the new cases, 460 were local contacts and 130 were quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 25 cases from New AG Colony, 20 from Kanan Vihar, 19 from Laxmisagar, 14 from Chandrasekharpur, 12 from Baramunda, 11 from Niladri Vihar and nine from Mancheswar.
Currently, the active cases in the city stood at 4,036.
One more person succumbed to the disease in the city on the day, increasing the total death toll to 251.
However, 139 patients recovered on the day, taking the total recoveries to 33,487 in the city.