Odisha reports 185 new Covid-19 cases, two deaths

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s daily new Covid-19 infection figure dropped below 200 mark after a gap of nine days as the state logged 185 new cases on Monday.

The state’s tally has now reached 10,45,656 with 185 new cases, while two fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8,379, a health department official said.

Khurda district reported the highest number of new cases with 76, followed by 18 in Sambalpur and 14 in Cuttack.

Twelve districts did not report any new cases during last 24 hours, reported PTI. The rate of daily test positivity rate (TPR) was 0.32 per cent in Odisha.

The health and family welfare department informed that two patients from Khurda district including a 66-year-old woman from Bhubaneswar, succumbed to the infection.

The state currently has 2,719 active cases while 10,34,505 patients have recovered from the disease, including 205 on Sunday.

Odisha has so far conducted over 2.28 crore sample tests including 56,857 on Sunday. The state’s positivity rate stands at 4.56 per cent.

As many as 1,35,16,227 people have been fully inoculated with both the doses of Covid-19 vaccines.