The Covid-19 cases continued to surge in the capital city Bhubaneswar with 87 more persons testing positive on Saturday. Among the new cases, 41 were from quarantine centres and 46 local contacts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
With this, the city’s total cases rose to 1,130, including 624 active ones.
The quarantine cases included two women of Maitri Vihar LIC Colony, a 70-year-old man of IRC Village, N-3, a 60-year-old man of Ganganagar near SBI NRI Branch, a 45-year-old man of BJB Nagar, three women of Damana, a 16-year-old girl of Shastri Nagar, a 33-year-old woman of Pokhariput Ananta Vihar with a travel history of Maharashtra, a 35-yearold man and seven-year-old boy of Laxmisagar Santosh Vihar, a 52-year-old man of Nayapalli near Mahima Dhaba, a 17-year-old girl of Unit-9 Road-2, a 23-year-old man of Lewis Road, three cases of same family of BJB Nagar Bijayalaxmi Colony, a 20-year-old woman of Unit-2 and a 25-year-old man of Rasulgarh with a travel history of Maharashtra.
The local contact cases were a 25-year-old woman of Jagamara near ITER College, a security guard of a private hospital, a 35-year-old man of Unit-3, a 23-year-old woman employee of a private hospital, a 65-year-old man of Jharpada Balaji Govinda Apartment, a 48-year-old woman of Unit-1 Akhandamani Basti, a 47-year-old woman of Laxmi Sagar, a 26-year-old man of Kalinga Vihar, a 29-year-old man of Rasulgarh Jagannath Nagar, three cases of Gautam Nagar Harihar Enclave, a 29-year-old woman of Kanan Vihar, a 35-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman of Sailashree Vihar, a 30-year-old man of IRC Village, a 38-year-old man of Ganganagar, an employee of a Government hospital, a 31-year-old man of Tankapani Road Rajarani Colony, a 23-year-old male employee of a private hospital, a 76-year-old man of Nayapalli Gandhi Basti and a 58 year-old man of Jayadev Vihar.
However, in Cuttack city, only 11 positive cases were detected on the day. Of them, six were from institutional quarantine centres, three from home quarantine and two local contacts. With the new cases, the tally in the city rose to 334 with 139 active cases and there were 188 recoveries. Seven have succumbed to the virus in the CMC area so far.