Of the 23 persons testing positive for coronavirus in Khordha district on Friday, as many as 13 are residents of capital city Bhubaneswar.
Of the 13, seven were under home quarantine while the rest are local contacts. The home quarantine cases include a case from the Patrapada area with travel history of New Delhi, two cases of the New Forest Park area with travel history of Delhi, one case of the Laxmisagar area with travel history of Delhi, one case of the Tankapani Road area with travel history of the Chintamaniswar area with travel history of Maharashtra case and a case from Old Town area with travel history of West Bengal.
The six local contacts include one each from Dumduma, Salia Sahi, Aiginia and Laxmisagar areas and two from the Unit- IV area.
With this, the number of cases in the state capital rose to 81, including 27 active cases. While 51 patients have recovered here, three succumbed to the virus so far, the department added.
In Cuttack, 23 tested positive for the virus on the day, of which 20 are from the Narsinghapur, Badamba and Nischintakoili blocks.
The remaining three cases belong to the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) area.
The new cases included one from Deulasahi, contact of a positive case, another from Siddheswar Sahi, contact of a positive case and symptomatic and one was under paid quarantine, travel history and symptomatic.
“All the patients have been shifted to the Ashwini Covid Hospital. Their contact tracing and follow-up action are underway,” said the
CMC.