Coronavirus continued to play havoc in capital city Bhubaneswar with a single-day record of 64 new positive cases detected on Sunday.
Of the new cases, 36 were detected from quarantine centres and 28 were local contacts, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, the total number of positive cases in the city rose to 704 with 368 active ones.
The quarantine cases included a 24 year-old woman of Lewis Road, Arabinda Colony, a 36-yeear-old man of Kalinga Vihar, nine women of Laxmisagar Uppar Sahi linked with an earlier positive case, a 44-year-old man of Unit-6 Keshari Nagar Basti, a 38-year-old woman of Satyanagar with travel history to Bihar, a 35-year-male employee of a private hospital, a 45-year-old man near Baramunda Fire Station, a 29-year-old woman of Baramunda, a 20-year-male employee of a private hospital, a 45-year-old man of Mancheswar and a 24-year-old native of other district with travel history to Delhi.
Besides, a 23-year-old woman of Acharya Vihar, seven cases of a same family near Brahmeshwar Patna, a 40-year-old man of Salia Sahi Mahavir Nagar, two security guards of a Government hospital, a 29-year-old woman employee of a private hospital with travel history o Bihar, a 37-year-old man of Chandrasekharpur and a 14-year-ol girl of Chakeisiani Hadibaba Basti and a 26-year-old man of Niladri Vihar also tested positive.
The local contact cases included three cases of Salia Sahi Mahaveer Nagar, four cases of Salai Sahi Sriram Nagar, two cases of Laxmisagar Uppar Sahi, a 29-year-old woman of Bhimatangi Phase-II, two male natives of a hotspot district, a 48-year-old man of Chakeisiani, a 36-year-old woman of Bhoi Nagar, two cases of Satyanagar Durga Mandap Basti, a 60-year-old man near SUM Hospital, a 75-year-old woman of Pokhariput Lingaraj Vihar, a 55-year-old man of Pohariput near Kokila Resort, four cases of Dumduma Raghunath Nagar, two cases of Mancheswar Dhirukuti Sahi, a 19-year-old girl of Acharya Vihar and a 30-year-old woman of Niladri Vihar Harekrushana Nagar.
However, 13 persons recovered from the disease on the day in the capital city.
In Cuttack city, eight new positive cases were reported on the day. Among them, four were Covid warriors. All the cases were reported from institutional quarantine centres. With this, the total cases in Cuttack city rose to 248 with 156 active ones.