Odisha Registers Highest Single-Day Spike of 1699 COVID-19 Cases, Tally Breaches 40K Mark

Bhubaneswar: Odisha continues to witness a steep rise in the coronavirus curve with the detection of highest 1,699 new cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the COVID-19 tally in the State reached 40,717 on Thursday.

Of the fresh cases, 1,073 have been detected from various quarantine centres while 626 are local contact cases.

6. Boudh: 8

7. Cuttack: 105
8. Dhenkanal: 27
9. Gajapati: 59
10. Ganjam: 268
11. Jagatsinghpur: 16
12. Jajpur: 41
13. Jharsuguda: 10
14. Kalahandi: 30
15. Kandhamal: 74
16. Kendrapada: 27
17. Keonjhar: 56
18. Khurda: 220
19. Koraput: 41
20. Malkangiri: 72
21. Mayurbhanj: 24

— I & PR Department, Odisha (@IPR_Odisha) August 6, 2020

According to the information provided by the Information and Public Relations department, maximum new cases were reported from Ganjam district (268), followed by Khurda (220), Sundargarh (178), Cuttack (105) and Sambalpur (101).

Sundergarh district reports record surge of 178 Covid19 cases in last 24 hours. Ganjam witnesses the maximum of 268 cases followed by Khurda with 220, Cuttack 105 & Sambalpur 101 cases. #Odisha pic.twitter.com/npLMiWSVIr

— OTV (@otvnews) August 6, 2020

The total recoveries stand at 25,737 while active case count is 14,700, The State health authorities conducted 15,086 new tests on Wednesday, taking cumulative tests to 6,00,591.

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