One more Covid-19 patient died due to co-morbidities in Ganjam district on Wednesday. With this, the total coronavirus death toll in the State rose to 26.
“Regret to inform that a 52-year male Covid positive patient of Ganjam district, passed away due to terminal cancer of the lungs with brain metastasis,” the Health and Family Welfare Department tweeted.
Meanwhile, 251 new cases were reported on the day, out of which 208 were detected from quarantine centres and the remaining 43 were local contact cases. With this, the State’s total positive cases rose to 7, 316.
Ganjam district registered the day’s highest of 102 cases. It was followed by Cuttack district with 32, Khordha 26, Nayagarh 14, Bargarh and Puri 12 each, Malkangiri and Sundargarh seven each.
Gajapati district registered six cases, Mayurbhanj and Jharsuguda five each, Kendrapada and Balangir four each, Baleswar and Sambalpur two each and Angul, Subarnapur and Jajpur one each.
An NDRF personnel, who returned from Amphan duty in West Bengal, also tested positive.
However, 164 more patients recovered from the disease on the day. With this, the total recoveries reached 5,353.
Of the new number of recovered cases, 48 are from Ganjam district, 31 from Jagatsinghpur, 26 from Baleswar, 25 from Cuttack, 12 each from Jajpur and Khordha, three each from Kendrapada and Sundargarh, two from Keonjhar and one each from Bhadrak and Nayagarh.