Odisha reports 407 new Covid positive cases, six deaths

The single-day recoveries in Odisha on Monday outnumbered the number of Covid positive cases that were reported in the state.

The state saw 606 people recovering from Covid-19, while 407 new infections pushed the tally to to 10,28,366, according to the state health department’s data.

It added that a total of 10,15,018 people have recovered from COVID-19 so far, with the new infections being reported from 18 districts of the state.

Of the new reported cases, 74 children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years are among the new cases. Khurda district reported the highest of 167 fresh cases followed by Cuttack (63), reported PTI.

According to PTI, these two districts account for 56.51 per cent of the state’s new infections.

The rate of infections among children and adolescents was 18.18 per cent against the previous day’s 13.82 per cent.

The tested positivity rate (TPR) for Monday was 0.62 per cent as 407 new positive cases were detected from a total of 64,419 sample tests done on Sunday.

The Health and Family Welfare Department (H&FW) said six more deaths due to Covid-19 were reported in the state which pushed the death toll to 8,220. Khurda district reported five and one fatality was from Cuttack.

The state currently has 5,075 active Covid-19 cases. Odisha’s positivity rate now is 5.08 per cent.

As many as 87,79,488 people have so far been fully inoculated with both the doses of the Covid-19 vaccines, the data released by the H&FW department said.