Maintaining the declining trend, the State’s daily Covid-19 cases once again dropped below the 1,000-mark with the detection of 986 new positives from all 30 districts and the State pool on Thursday.
With this, total cases surged to 3,05,986. Of the new cases, 572 were local contacts and 414 from quarantine.
Earlier the State had recorded below 1,000 cases on Tuesday when 967 persons were found positive. On Thursday, Khordha district recorded the highest 112 cases followed by Cuttack 81, Sundargarh 80, Angul 64, Mayurbhanj 57, Jagatsinghpur 54, Keonjhar 49, Kendrapada 44, Baleswar 43, Kalahandi 42, Nuapada 38, Bargarh 34, Puri 32, Jajpur 28, Balangir and Dhenkanal 26, Jharsuguda 19, Rayagada and Sambalpur each, Ganjam and Nabarangpur 15 each, Koraput 14, Kandhamal 13, Bhadrak and Nayagarh 10 each, Boudh eight, Malkangiri six, Deogarh five and Gajapati and Subarnapur three each.Besides, 23 cases were detected from the State pool.The number of fatalities continued to rise as.
14 more patients died across the State on the day, pushing the death toll to 1,483.Three deaths were reported from Khordha district, two from Sundargarh and Nuapada and one each in Bargarh, Baleswar, Cuttack, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Mayurbhanj and Sambalpur. The deceased in Khordha were a 62-year-old man, a 86-year-old man (both of Bhubaneswar) and a 56-year-old man.
The deaths in Sundargarh were of a 83-year-old man and a 62-year-old man. The fatalities in Nuapada were a 95-year-old man and a 65-year-old man.
The other deceased were a 48-year-old man of Bargarh, a 68-year-old man of Baleswar, a 79-year-old man of Cuttack, a 67-year-old man of Kalahandi, a 61-year-old man of Kendrapada, a 65-year-old man of Mayurbhanj and a 58-year-old man of Sambalpur. However, 1264 patients recovered on the day, taking the total recoveries to 2,93,741.