86 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Odisha, state tally reaches 1,189

BHUBANESWAR: With 86 more testing positive for novel coronavirus on Friday, the state’s total cases reach 1,189 even as the death due to the viral infection remains seven.
The state on Friday also saw 43 more positive persons getting discharged from hospital taking the people recovered from the infection to 436. As many as 15 Covid-19 positive were discharged from Angul, eight each from Ganjam, Rourkela and Jajpur and one each from Puri, Kendrapada, Cuttack and Boudh. With this, the active Covid-19 cases stood at 746.
Out of 86 new positive, 80 were detected from different quarantine centres, one from containment zone and five locals. Jajpur district recorded highest 46 cases out of 86. Followed by Jajpur, 11 new cases were detected in Cuttack, six in Nayagarah, five in Ganjam, three each from Keonjhar, Bhadrak, Balasore, Puri and Khurda districts. Two cases have been reported from Balangir district and one from Sundargarh.
With new cases, Ganjam still the number with 322 cases one followed by Jajpur (225 cases). In the third and fourth spots are Balasore and Bhadrak districts respectively. With 74 cases, Khurda is on the fifth spot. Khurda’s total cases has share of Bhubaneswar’s 52. Khurda recorded district (barring Bhubaneswar) had recorded first case on May 13.
Among the new cases, 46 are West Bengal returnees out of which 37 (all in quarantine centres) belong to Jajpur districts. Other positive persons in quarantine had returned from UAE, Chandigarh, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
Out of 30 districts of Odisha, 24 have reported coronavirus positive cases so far but only Koraput and Jharsuguda have no active cases. In all the remaining 22 districts have active cases. Till tuesday, eight districts have single-digit cases.
In the current week, the state completed testing of one lakh sample with maximum from Khurda district, which included Bhubaneswar. Between March 21 and April 26, it had tested just 25, 000 samples. But it recorded a sharp rise post April 26 since when it has tested close to 85,000 samples. “With more than 4,000 samples daily, we will be able to test close to 1.5 lakh samples by the end of the month,” said a state government officer.
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