Bhubaneswar on Monday registered 286 new Covid-19 positive cases, with which the total tally in the city rose to 98,352. Out of the new cases, 222 were local contacts and 64 quarantine cases.
The local contacts included 13 cases each in Nayapalli and Patia, followed by 11 in Laxmi Sagar, 10 in Khandagiri, nine each in Sailashree Vihar and Pokhariput and eight each in Old Town, Rasulgarh and ICR Village. The active cases stood at 2,015 in the city.
Meanwhile, 25 more patients died of disease in the city, surgig the total death toll to 776. However, 234 persons recovered on the day, increasing the total recoveries to 95,540.