Bhubaneswar on Monday registered 14 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total number of positive cases to 718 in the capital city.
Out of the fresh cases, 10 were local contacts and four detected from quarantine centres, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The local cases included a 75 year-old woman of Kanan Vihar Phase-II, a 40-year-old man of Bomikhal Jayadurga Nagar, a 30-year-old man of Nayapalli near Mahima Dhaba, a 58-year-old man of IRC Village, who is a Government hospital employee, a 44-year-old woman of Ganganagar, who is a service provider of a Government hospital, a 60-year-old man of Sundarpada, a one-year-old girl of Unit-6 Radhakrishna Tala Basti with a travel history of a hotspot district, a 32-year old man of Unit-9 near Road No. 8 and a 24-year-old woman employee of a private hospital.
The quarantine cases included a 28-year-old woman employee of a private hospital, a 42-year-old man of Unit-8 and two cases of Unit-5 Kesharinagar Basti linked with an earlier positive case.
However, 29 more patients recovered from the disease in the city on Monday.
On the day, Cuttack city registered 16 new cases, following which its total tally increased to 264. Of these cases, six were detected from institutional quarantine, two from home quarantine and eight were local contact cases.
With this, the total active cases in the city rose to 128.
