Six more persons including four women tested positive for COVID-19 in the State on Thursday. With this, the total number of positive cases increased to 89.
The Health and Family Welfare Department said two new cases were detected from Baleswar district. The persons found positive are a 55-year-old woman and a 36-year-old youth.
The two are believed to be the contacts of a positive case reported earlier. However, the contact tracing exercise is underway, the department said. With two new cases, the tally mounted to 10 in Baleswar district.
Earlier in the day, four positive cases were reported from Jajpur district.
The new patients include three woman aged 48, 70, and 80 years and a 21-year-old youth. All are family members and neighbours of five previous patients, who had returned from West Bengal and tested positive on April 20.
While three of them are residents of Basudevpur gram panchayat under Jajpur Sadar block, one is from Birajapur panchayat under Dasarathpur block, said Jajpur Collector Ranjan Das.
They were kept under institutional quarantine after April 20 and further contact tracing and follow up action is underway. As the area is already under containment zone, no special arrangements are required. The new patients have been admitted to the Tata COVID-19 hospital in Duburi, Das added.
With the four new cases, the total number of positive cases in the district rose to 12. While one patient has recovered and discharged from hospital, rest 11 active cases are undergoing treatment at COVID-19 hospitals in the State.
Notably, currently there are 55 active cases out of the total 89 positive patients in the State. While 33 persons have recovered so far, one has died. As on April 22, a total of 15,985 samples were tested.