Odisha records 524 new Covid-19 cases, four deaths

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Friday reported 524 new Covid-19 cases, taking the states caseload to 10,30,518. Four fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8,238, a health department official said.

Of the 524 new cases, Khurda and Cuttack reported 325, which is 62 per cent of the total cases reported during the day, reported PTI.

Bargarh, Boudh, Gajapati, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur and Subarnapur districts did not report any new cases.

Odisha had registered 582 cases on Thursday and 593 on Wednesday.

The state’s daily test positivity rate (TPR) was 0.78 per cent. Odisha currently has 5,111 active Covid-19 cases.

The state has so far conducted over 2.05 crore sample tests while its positivity rate stands at 5.02 per cent.

Over 91.95 lakh people have so far been fully inoculated in the state with double dose of Covid-19 vaccine.