Odisha news: Khurdha registers highest 323 Covid positive cases, eight districts report no new cases
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* Online slot booking for Covid vaccination for Puri region will open at 9 PM tonight.
* With 615 positive cases detected out of 62,675 samples tested on Tuesday, the daily test positivity rate stood at 0.98 per cent, reported PTI.
* Khurda district which was in the orange zone turned into a red once again with the number of active cases standing at 2,535. The remaining 29 districts in the state are green zone for their less than 1,000 active cases.
* Odisha currently has 5,203 active cases while as many as 10,19,764 patients including 546 of them recovered on Tuesday.
* The state’s overall positivity rate now stands at 4.96 per cent.
* As many as 96,30,728 people have been fully inoculated with both doses of the Covid-19 vaccines in Odisha.
* Odisha records 615 new Covid positive cases, of which 68 are in the 0-18 age category. In quarantine 357, local contacts 258. Khurdha recorded highest positive cases of 323.
* The fuel price in Bhubaneswar saw a increase of 19 paise on Wednesday, as the rate of petrol in the capital city was Rs 105.35 while diesel price was at Rs 101.62.
* In Cuttack the prices of petrol and diesel on Wednesday were Rs 105.71 and Rs 101.96, respectively.
* Cuttack city on Tuesday registered 17 Covid positive cases and 44 recoveries. While Bhubaneswar reported 234 positive cases.
