Bhubaneswar: Covid-19 cases in Odisha continue to surge with the State reporting a ‘highest’ 4,270 new positive cases in the last 24 hours pushing the positive tally to 1,62,920. On the other hand, the virus claimed 11 more lives, taking the death toll to 656.
Of the new cases, 2478 were reported from quarantine centres and 1792 were local contact cases.
As per the statistics compiled by the Information and Public Relations department, Khordha reported the maximum number of 876 cases followed by Cuttack (374), Puri (287), Jagatsinghpur (188), Bargarh (183) and jajpur (162).
With the spike in COVID-19 cases, the active case count stands at 36,473, while 1,25,738 infected persons have so far recovered from the disease.
