Behera Sahi in Cuttack reports 112 cases
Cuttack: The city has witnessed the highest single-day spike of 143 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Out of these, 112 were detected from a single slum, Behera Sahi, in Malgodown. The city’s Covid tally touched 1,325 on Wednesday.
Behera Sahi was declared a containment zone on July 29. So far, 217 cases have been detected there over the past eight days. Fifty-seven of the cases were reported on August 3 alone.
“Recently, 200 samples were collected from Behera Sahi for testing. Of them, 112 returned positive on Wednesday. All the cases are contacts of an earlier positive case,” said Cuttack Municipal Corporation. (CMC). Of the 112 cases detected in Behera Sahi on Wednesday, 62 are men.
The slum has turned out to be a cause of concern as it adjoins the state’s biggest wholesale mandi of Malgodown. Most residents of the slum work in Malgodown as labours, trolley pullers, rickshaw pullers and auto drivers.