Odisha logs 1,032 new Covid-19 cases, 67 more deaths

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha‘s Covid-19 toll on Monday rose to 6,033 after 67 more patients succumbed to the infection, while 1,032 fresh cases pushed the tally to 9,79,737, a health department official said.
The state currently has 15,050 active cases, while 9,58,601 patients, including 1,773 on Sunday, have recovered from the disease.
Khurda alone accounted for 12 fresh deaths, followed by Sundergarh at 11, Cuttack at 10, Puri at six and Dhenkanal at five.
According to the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department, the fatality list does not reflect deaths occurring on a particular day. It gives details of the past deaths for which the audit process has been duly completed, and the cause of the death identified due to Covid-19.
Earlier, 53 Covid-19 patients in the state have died due to comorbidities.
Of the 1,032 new cases, 598 came from quarantine centres and the rest were detected during contact tracing. Khurda registered 237 infections, followed by Cuttack at 154. Twenty-eight districts reported less than 100 new cases each.
Over 1.61 crore samples have been tested for Covid-19 thus far, including 67,131 on Sunday. The test positivity rate (TPR) for the day stood at 1.53 per cent, the official added. Inspired By