As many as 15 more patients succumbed to Covid-19 in ten districts of the State on Thursday, pushing the total toll to 1,196.
While three deaths were reported from Angul and Mayurbhanj districts, two each were reported in Dhenkanal, Khordha (Bhubaneswar) and Subarnapur and one each from Cuttack, Puri and Sundargarh (Rourkela).
The deceased in Mayurbhanj were a 57-year-old man, a 72-year-old man and a 70-year-old man. The Angul casualties were an 84-year-old man, an 85-year-old man and a 45-year-old man. The deaths in Khordha were of a 73-year-old man and a 78-year-old man (both of Bhubaneswar).
The fatalities in Dhenkanal were a 50-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man and those in Subarnapur were a 41-year-old man and a 65-year-old man.
The other deceased were a 29-year-old woman of Rourkela, a 73-year-old man of Cuttack and a 48-year-old man of Puri. Meanwhile, 1,913 new positive cases were registered from all 30 districts and the State pool on the day, pushing the tally to 2,76,094 in the State.
Of the new cases, 1,109 were detected from quarantine and 804 were local contacts. Khordha again recorded the day’s highest cases at 254 followed by Cuttack 150, Angul 106, Jagatsinghpur 99, Sundargarh 99, Mayurbhanj 92, Kalahandi 82, Keonjhar 74, Baleswar 73, Jajpur 72, Bargarh 63, Balangir 63, Nuapada 63, Koraput 54, Puri 55, Kendrapada 51, Sambalpur 50, Dhenkanal 48, Jharsuguda 48, Kandhamal 48, Bhadrak 46, Nabarangpur 41, Nayagarh 33, Subarnapur 20, Ganjam 28, Malkangiri 16, Rayagada 14, Boudh 12, Deogarh five and Gajapati four.
Besides, 50 positives were detected from the State pool.With 40,114 Covid tests done during the period, the State’s cumulative tests rose to 41,99,508.However, another 2,128 persons recovered from the disease on the day, taking the total recoveries to 2,57,041 in the State.