50% Cov cases reported from Khurda and Cuttack districts

BHUBANESWAR: Cuttack and Khurda districts on Saturday accounted for nearly 50% of the state’s daily Covid caseload even as there was a sharp fall in daily infections in six other coastal districts.
Though there is a significant fall in overall daily infection, the percentage of children (in zero to 18 age group) getting infected has marginally gone up from previous highest of 17.24% to 17.32%.
The state reported 681 new cases from 67,229 samples registering just 1% TPR. Out of the new cases, Khurda and Cuttack reported 222 and 101 new cases respectively. This is for the second time in a week, the TPR remained at 1% with 118 children being detected positive for Covid-19 out of 681 new cases. Seven teenage students from one educational institution in Bargarh district have tested positive.
Ajay Parida, director, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) said the rise in number of children getting infected is emerging as a pan-India trend.
“As we can conclude from the daily caseload, some vaccinated people are also contracting the virus. These few vaccinated people carry the virus and unknowingly infect others, including children. So, what is important is those being exposed on a daily basis need to be careful. Otherwise cases of children will go up,” he said.
No new infections were reported from Balangir, Gajapati, Nuapada and Kandhamal districts on Saturday. The coastal districts of Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak, Nayagarh and Puri have also been reporting very few cases daily.
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