Odisha's COVID-19 caseload on Thursday breached the 21,000-mark as the state reported its highest single-day spike of 1,264 cases, while six more patients succumbed to the disease taking the death toll to 114, a Health department official said.
With new cases, the states virus load increased to 21,099. A total of 540 positive cases were reported from the coronavirus hotspot of Ganjam district followed by Khurda (137).
The six new fatalities were reported from Ganjam (5) and Khurda (1). With this, Odisha's death toll mounted to 114, the official said.
Of the new cases, 847 persons have tested positive to virus from different quarantine centres, while the remaining 417 are local contacts spread over 27 districts. Contact tracing and follow-up action is underway, the official said.
With the new cases, the number of active cases in the state rose to 7,204 while 13,750 patients have recovered in the state so far.
In the last 24 hours, 11,010 swab samples were tested.
The total samples tested so far is 4,21,931, the official said.