The capital city Bhubaneswar witnessed a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases by registering a record 45 new ones on Saturday.
Among them, 37 were from quarantine centres and the rest eight were local contacts. With this, the city’s total tally rose to 414, which include 160 active cases, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The quarantine cases included nine cases, all men of Mancheswar near Pratidin newspaper office linked with an earlier positive case, five cases including a woman of Nuagaon near Samantrapur, three cases, all women staffs of a private hospital, a man of Chandrasekharpur Maitri Vihar linked with an earlier positive case, two men of Aiginia and Satyanagar linked with earlier positive cases, three cases, all men, near Kalinga Bakery in Mancheswar, one case of Saheed Nagar linked with an earlier positive case and a man of Bharatpur linked with an earlier case.
The local contacts included a man of Baramunda near Shakti Guest House linked with an earlier positive case, a man of Kedar Gouri near Ravi Talkies, a woman of Salia Sahi near Shani Mandir, a man of Khandargiri near Amri Hospital linked with an earlier positive case, a man of Subash Nagar in Dumduma, a man of Jambeshwar Patna in Old Town, a man of MLA Colony linked with an earlier positive case and a man of the Chandrasekharpur district centre.
However, amid the surging number of positive cases, 31 patients recovered in the city on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Cuttack city reported 11 cases on the day. The cases included five from the Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) and six from a private nursing home at Chauliaganj.