Six more persons died of Covid-19 on Monday, increasing the total death toll to 70 in the State. While four deaths were reported from Ganjam district, the other two were reported from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack district.

The deceased included a 45-year-old man, a 63-year-old man, a 72-year-old man and a 49-year-old man of Ganjam. The other two deaths were of a 67-year-old man of Bhubaneswar and a 40-year-old man of Cuttack district, the Health and Family Welfare Department said.

Meanwhile, 616 new positive cases were reported in the State on the day, following which the total cases reached 13,737. Out of them, 415 were reported from quarantine centres and 201 were local contacts.

Ganjam district again reported the day’s highest 283 cases, followed by Koraput with 50 , Nabarangpur 40 , Bargarh 31, Khordha 29, Baleswar 27, Cuttack and Keonjhar 23, Jagatsinghpur 18, Jajpur 17, Malkangiri 14, Mayurbhanj 13, Jharsuguda 11, Angul seven, Kandhamal six,  Sundargarh and Nuapada five each, Bhadrak and Balangir two each,  Kendrapada, Gajapati and Puri one each.

However, 505 patients recovered from the infection on Monday. With this, the total number of recoveries cases in the State increased to 9,255.

The maximum number of 248 recovered in Ganjam district, followed by 71 in Sundargarh, 52 in Khordha, 45 in Cuttack, 11 in Puri, 10 in Gajapati, nine in Nabarangpur, eight each in Jajpur and Nayagarh, seven in Jagatsinghpur, six each in Bhadrak and Dhenkanal, five in Angul, four each in Kandhamal, Kendrapada and Koraput, three in Bargarh, two in Keonjhar and one each in Jharsuguda and Rayagada districts.