Odisha's COVID-19 tally on Monday mounted to 3,30,492 after 183 more people tested positive for the infection, while two more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,885, a health department official said.
Of the new cases, 106 were reported from different quarantine centres, while the remaining 77 are local contact cases.
Sundargarh district recorded the highest of 32 new cases followed by Angul (24) and Khurda (14) districts.
Taking to twitter, the Health and Family Welfare department said: "regret to inform the demise of two numbers of Covid positive patients while under treatment in hospitals."
The two fresh fatalities were reported from Balasore and Sunadargarh districts.
This apart, 53 COVID-19 positive patients have also died in the state due to comorbidity, he said.
Of the 1,885 coronavirus fatalities reported so far, Khurda district of which the state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, alone accounted for 326 deaths followed by Ganjam (247), Sundargarh (168), Cuttack (140) and Puri (117).
Twenty-five other districts have reported COVID-19 fatalities below 100, he said.
Currently, Odisha has 2,345 active COVID-19 cases, while as many as 3,26,209 patients have so far recovered from the highly infectious disease.
The state has so far conducted over 70.28 lakh sample tests for COVID-19 including 15,980 on Sunday. The state's positivity rate stands at 4.7 per cent, the data released by the health and family welfare department said.
