The Covid-19 death toll climbed to 97 in the State as six more patients succumbed to the virus on Monday. While five deaths were reported from hotspot Ganjam district, the sixth patient was a native of Gajapati district.
“Regret to inform the demise of six Covid positive patients while under treatment in hospitals. The five deceased from Ganjam included a 70-year-old man, a 42-year-old man, a 40-year-old man and a 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old man. The sixth causality was a 55-year-old woman of Gajapati,” said the Health and Family Welfare Department.
And as many as 673 more positive cases were reported on the day, taking the State’s total tally to 18,110.
Of the new cases, 446 were detected from different quarantine centres while 227 were local contact cases. Ganjam district again reported highest single-day 239 cases, followed by Khordha and Bhadrak 58 each, Kandhamal 44, Koraput 41, Jagatsinghpur 36, Cuttack 32, Jajpur 28, Keonjhar 24, Bargarh 22, Gajapati 15, Jharsuguda 14, Baleswar 13, Sundargarh 11, Dhenkanal 10, Sambalpur three, four each in Angul, Kendrapara, Malkangiri, Nayagarh, Puri and Subarnapur and one in Mayurbhanj.
However, 457 patients recovered on Monday, taking the total recovery count to 12,910 in the State.