The declining trend of the Covid-19 cases continued in capital city Bhubaneswar with 233 new cases being registered on Sunday.With this, the total tally of the cases rose to 27,228 in the city which included 2,927 active cases.
The new cases included 182 local contacts and 51 quarantine cases. The local contacts included 12 cases from Patia, nine each from Nayapalli and Khandagiri, six each from Niladri Vihar, Tankapani Road, Jagamara, Patrapada, Rasulgarh and Dumduma, five each from Chandrasekharpur, Ghatikia and Bomikhal and four each from Pokhariput, Prasanti Vihar and Satyanagar,
The quarantine cases included five from Patia, four from Patrapada, four from Old Town and three each from Khandagiri and Prasanti Vihar. Meanwhile, four more patients succumbed to the disease in the city on the day, taking the total toll to 133.
However, 313 patients recovered on the day, taking the total recoveries to 24,143. Meanwhile, Cuttack city recorded 71 positive cases on Sunday, taking the positive tally to 14, 102. Out of the new cases 30 are local contacts, 24 home quarantine and 17 institutional cases.