The Covid-19 death toll in the State on Sunday decreased to 39 from 47 on Saturday. With this, the total death toll mounted to 3,887.
Khordha district reported the day’s maximum nine casualties followed by five each in Bargarh, Cuttack and Nayagarh, three each in Sambalpur and Sundargarh, two each in Ganjam, Kendrapada, Mayurbhanj and Subarnapur and one in Puri.
Meanwhile, cumulative positive count reached 9,00,470 with as many as 3,408 people testing positive for the virus in last 24 hours in the 30 districts and the State pool, the Information and Public Relations (I&PR) Department said. Out of new cases, 1,943 were from quarantine and 1,465 were local contacts.
In the last 24 hours, 68,335 samples were tested and the test positivity rate (TPR) stood at 4.9 per cent. The cumulative samples tested so far were 1,35,54,417; and the active cases stood at 32,706.
Khordha district again reported the highest single-day cases at 582 followed by Cuttack with 553, Jajpur 258, Baleswar 251, Puri 215, Bhadrak 169, Nayagarh 160, Mayurbhanj 158, Kendrapada 110 and Jagatsinghpur 103.
The districts which registered below 100 cases were Angul with 93, Rayagada 77, Koraput 76, Dhenkanal and Malkangiri 73 each, Keonjhar 70, Nabarangpur 43, Sundargarh 37, Sambalpur and Boudh 28 each, Bargarh 24, Balangir 22, Jharsuguda and Kandhamal 19 each, Ganjam 17, Subarnapur 16, Kalahandi 15, Gajapati 14, Nuapada five and Deogarh four. Besides, 95 cases were reported from the State pool. Till now, 8,63,824 patients have recovered from disease in the State.