The State reported a slight increase in daily Covid- 19 positive cases on Wednesday with 80 infections being reported from 20 districts and the State pool. With this, the total tally increased to 12,86,772.
Among the freshly-infected were 12 children in the age group of 0 to 18 years.
Notably, the State had reported 78 Covid cases on Tuesday.
Out of the new cases, 45 were from quarantine and 35 local contacts.
Samabalpur district recorded the highest 13 new cases, Kendrapada 12, Khordha 10, Sambalpur nine, Sundargarh and Gajapati eight, Koraput seven, jajpur four, Nuapada three and Cuttack, Deogarh, Jagatsinghpur, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur, Puri and Subarnapur one each.
Three cases were reported from the State pool.
The active cases stood at 750.
So far, 12,76,782 patients have recovered in the State.