Six more persons were infected by coronavirus in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, taking the capital city’s tally to 320, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
While five of the new cases were local contacts, one was a home quarantine case. The home quarantine case is a 56-year-old male railway staff with a travel history of New Delhi.
The local contacts included a 16 year-old boy, a 60 year-0ld woman and a 15- year-old boy of Siripur’s Laxmibazaar Basti linked with an earlier positive case, a 13 year-old-boy of Bomikhal Canal Road and a 32-year-old-man of Chandrasekharpur BDA Colony.
Further contact tracing is underway while primary contacts and nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitised and would be under active surveillance, said the BMC.
On the other hand, seven persons in the city recovered from the disease on the day.