Out of 56 new coronavirus cases reported in Khordha district on Thursday, 32 cases were detected in State capital Bhubaneswar.
Of the fresh cases, 18 were local contacts and 14 from quarantine centres, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, the total cases in the city surged to 557 with 247 active ones.
The quarantine cases included a 36-year-old male employee of a Central Government Hospital linked with an earlier positive case, a 47-year-old security guard of a Central Government Hospital linked with an earlier case, three cases of a same family of Kalinganagar near SUM Hospital, a 30-year-old man of Bapuji Nagar linked with an earlier case, a 31-year-old woman of Rasulgarh Sabar Sahi linked with an earlier case.
A 32-year-old man of Patrapada, a 52-year-old man at a quarantine centre with travel history to a hotspot district, a15-year-old girl at a quarantine centre linked with an earlier case , a 31-year-old man of Dumduma Phase-IV, a 27-year-old man of Unit-2, a 29-year-old man of Mancheswar, an RPF staff with travel history to West Bengal and a 39-year-old man of Bapuji Nagar were also found positive.
The local contact cases included a 60-year-old man of Nayapalli IRC Village, a 52-year-old man of Nayapalli Brit Colony, a 19-year-old girl of Bhimatangi People’s Basti, a 23-year-old male service provider of railway at Chandrasekharpur, a 47-year-old male employee of a Central Government hospital, a 47-year-old woman and a 21-year-old-woman of Unit-2, a 38-year-old man of Baramunda, a 35-year-old man of Ganganagar, a 79-year-old man of Nayapalli Nua Sahi, a 72-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman of Nuagaon .
Besides, a 30-year-old woman of Bapuji Nagar, a 32-year-old woman of Nakhara, a 30-year-old man of Bharatpur, a 48-year-old man of Jayadev Vihar, a 24 year-old man of Rasulgarh and a 48-year-old male employee of a private hospital of Sampur with travel history to a hotspot district were detected positive.
However, seven more patients recovered from the virus in the city on Thursday, following which the number of recovered cases stood at 302.
Meanwhile, 11 including a four-year-old boy, tested positive on the day in the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) area. With this, the total tally in Cuttack city surged to 213.
Of the new cases, three were local contacts and four under quarantine.
