Capital city Bhubaneswar reported the highest single-day spike of 46 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. With the new cases the total cases in the city rose to 525 with 222 active cases.
Of the 46 new cases, 24 are local contacts and 22 were detected from quarantine centres, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The quarantine cases include , a 25-year-old and 23-year-old man and a 55-year old woman, all of a same family of Aiginia, a 28-year-old woman of Chandrasekharpur Pragati Vihar, a 25-year-old man of Pahala linked with earlier positive case ,a 29-year-old man of gagare Chhack linked with earlier positive case, a 25year-old woman of Old Town linked with earlier positive case, a 23year-old , 28year-old women and 22-year-old man of Rasulgarh Sabar Sahi, linked with earlier positive case.
A 23-year-old woman of Baramunda linked with earlier positive case, two 26-year-old men of Nuagaon linked with earlier positive case a 32-year-old man of Jharpada, a 35 year-old man of Laxmisagar, a 21-year-old woman of Laxmisagar Mandap Sahi, a 48-year-old man of Chintamaneswar, a man and a woman of Dumduma, a 47-year-old man of Patrapada and a 28-year-old woman of Naka Gate.
The local contacts included a 38-year-old woman of Pokhariput Keshari Villa, a 38-yearold man of Patrapada, three women employees of a private hospital, four employees of RTO-I, a 57-year-old woman of Unit-8, a 48-year-old man of Nayapalli, a 83-year-old man of Ghatikia, a 41-year-old man of Nayapalli Behera Sahi, a 43-year-old man of Bomikhal, a 22-year-old man of Kolathia, a 53-year-old man of Jayadev Vihar, two women employees of a Government hospital, a 30-year-old man of Kalinga Nagar, a 14-year-old boy of Unit 6 and two men and a woman undergoing treatment in private hospitals.
However, 18 patients recovered in the city, following which the number of recoveries stood at 295.
Four cases were reported on the day in Cuttack city, increasing the total to 202 with 152 active cases.