Bhubaneswar: Five more persons, including two Surat and two West Bengal returnees, tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha on Sunday. With this, the total number of COVID-19 cases reached 162 in the State.
As per the data of the State Health and Family Welfare Department, two new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from Ganjam (Surat returnees), one person in Balasore (West Bengal returnee), a woman from Jharsuguda and a 30-year-old in Keonjhar district (West Bengal returnee) tested positive for COVID-19 in the State.
It is for the first time that COVID-19 case has been reported from Ganjam district, which so far had remained in the green zone category. Two persons, who recently returned from Surat, have been tested positive for COVID-19 in the district. Both the Surat returnees, aged 17 and 22 years, were asymptomatic and necessary contract-tracing and follow-up action have been initiated as per the protocol, informed Health and Family Welfare Department.
The third patient who has tested positive for the disease is a woman from Jharsuguda district.
The Health department revealed that 2,065 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. So far, Odisha has examined 38,658 samples.
Of the 162 cases in Odisha, the total number of active cases in the State now stands at 105 while 56 persons have recovered from the coronavirus infection. Earlier, one person from Bhubaneswar succumbed to the disease on April 6.
District Wise Statistics
Jajpur district in Odisha has reported the highest number of 48 novel coronavirus positive cases, followed by Bhubaneswar in Khurda at 47, Balasore at 21, Bhadrak at 19 and Sundergarh at 10.
Jajpur district also has the highest 47 active COVID-19 cases, followed by 18 in Balasore and 15 in Khurda.
Five districts in Odisha- Cuttack, Puri, Dhenkanal, Kendrapara and Kalahandi have ‘zero’ active cases out of the total 16 districts from where COVID-19 cases have been reported so far.