City adds 645 cases in 3 days
Bhubaneswar: The city on Monday reported 198 positive cases, taking the tally to 5487. In the past three days, the city has added 645 cases, with the single-day highest of 277 on Saturday.
Among the fresh Covid cases, 104 were reported from quarantine (home and institutional) centres.
Sources in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said more than 2200 tests were conducted on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. “With more tests being conducted, it is obvious there will be more positive cases. But the rate of positivity is a little more than 10%, a 2% increase from the past week. We have appealed to the people not to panic as we have sufficient beds in our Covid facilities. Besides, 85% of the cases are asymptomatic,” said a BMC officer.
On Monday, 132 patients were discharged from hospital taking the recoveries to 3567.
The officer added that none of the areas has been brought under containment as most are reporting one or two cases. The seven containment zones that had been created in seven slums have also been lifted.
“We are vigilant in the slum areas and our policy of no home isolation for slum dwellers is still in force. We are taking those suspected to have come in touch with primary contacts to the quarantine centres. That is the reason isolated cases are being reported from slums without the need to bring them under containment,” the officer added.