As many as 68 more Covid-19 cases were reported on Monday With this, the total cases rose to 896 in the State.
The highest number of 20 cases was reported from Jagatsinghpur district. Interestingly, the district which earned the tag of Covid-free district, once again joined the list of affected districts with the detection of the 20 cases. While 19 of them were from Nuagaon, one was from Kujanga. All of them are in quarantine.
Jagatsinghpur was followed by Ganjam district with 15, Jajpur district 16, Puri district four, three each in Nayagarh and Kendrapada districts, Balangir district two, one each in Boudh, Cuttack and Khordha districts.
But for the first time two cases were reported from Kandhamal district, which till now remained unaffected by the virus spread. Both the patients are Tamil Nadu returnees and are on quarantine. With the addition of Kandhamal, 23districts of the State are now hit by the pandemic.
However, State capital Bhubaneswar became coronavirus-free on the day with the recovery of the three last patients. With this, all the 48 patients in the city have recovered. Of the 50 cases reported here, while 48 recovered, two died.
The city which reported the Odisha’s first Covid-19 case on March 15 and State’s first coronavirus fatality on April 6 was declared as free from the infectious disease with the discharge of three patients.
On Monday, besides the three patients from Bhubaneswar, 54 more persons recovered and tested negative. While 40 were from Ganjam district, five were from Jagatsinghpur, four from Mayurbhanj, four from Balangir and one each from Sundargarh, Baleswar and Kendrapada. With this, the total recoveries reached 277 in the State.