334 new Covid-19 cases reported in Odisha

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha has reported 334 new Covid-19 positive cases in last 24 hours. Four people belong to Sundargarh, Balasore, Bhubaneswar and Mayurbhanj died of Covid while undergoing treatment in hospitals.
With this 325 fresh cases, total number of positive cases touched 3, 28, 201 on Saturday. Of them, 194 were from quarantine and 140 were from local contacts.
Sundargarh district has registered the highest number of cases of 40 followed by 30 each from Sambalpur and Khurda, 27 from Balangir, 26 from Cuttack, 23 from Angul and seven from state pool.
A total of 20 fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours from Bhubaneswar. At present the state has 2913 active cases while another 406 covid-19 patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recovery to 3, 23,378 so far.
A 58-year-old female of Balasore district, who was also suffering from hypertension and hypothyroidism, and a 55-year-old female of Bhubaneswar who was also suffering from Diabetes Mellitus died of Covid. A 57-year-old male of Mayurbhanj district, who was also suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease, and a 71-year-old female of Sundargarh district who was also suffering from Ischemic Heart Disease, lost their lives due to Covid-19.
The state government has intensified the testing of UK returnee and contact tracing of positive cases returned from the UK. The testing is being done to know whether the virulent mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 present in the sample or not. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued guidelines to test, trace and isolate the positive cases.
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