At 98.5%, Odisha’s Covid recovery rate better than national average

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha’s total recoveries went beyond 10 lakh (10,00,548) with 689 more people being cured of Covid on Saturday, pushing up the recovery percentage to 98.5, higher than national average of 97.45. The state so far has accumulated 10,15,713 cases.
The recovery of Covid patients has been considerably faster than the initial phase of the second wave primarily because of two reasons. Experts said it was sluggish because of the huge caseload in the three months after the second wave announced its arrival. This apart, the new mutant variant acted as a hindrance in patients’ recovery. Earlier, the recoveries used to be far less than the daily fresh infections. Of late, it has either been equal or more than the fresh infection cunt. This, in turn, has helped bring down the total active cases in the state.
Ajay Parida, director, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) said, “The rate of hospitalisation of Covid patients has dropped drastically in past two months, irrespective of the number of new cases. No new mutant variant has been detected in the state. The severity of Covid-hit patients has also reduced leading to quicker recovery. This is a positive sign. But we need to stay protected as we still have a significant number of cases being reported from two coastal districts, Khurda and Cuttack. The number of cases daily has come down and we can be optimistic that recovery will be a bit faster, he observed.
The state reported 630 new cases from 63817 samples registering 0.98 per cent of test positivity rate (TPR). Except Subarnapur, all the districts reported new infections with Khurda adding the highest 221.
With 159244 (highest among 30 districts) people getting recovered and 1474 succumbing to the virus in Khurda has 2755 active cases now. Nuapada and Kandhamal districts have active cases in single digit, eight each. While TPR of Khurda and Cuttack went beyond 3 per cent, Sundargarhs TPR was a little over one per cent. The states overall TPR (in first and second wave together) so far remained at 5.42 per cent.
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