For the second consecutive day, Odisha saw a fall in the number of daily active COVID cases. In the last 24 hours as per the reports, 160 cases new cases were recorded, which is 13 less than the total cases recorded the day before yesterday’s tally of 173.
There has been a drop in the number of new infections as the state logged 173 cases on Saturday, 286 cases on Friday, 195 on Thursday, and 255 on Wednesday.
Of the new infections, the Khurda district of which Bhubaneswar is a part reported the highest of 86 cases followed by 10 in Sundergarh. Ten districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.
With 160 people testing positive out of 59,346 samples tested on Saturday, the daily test positivity rate (TPR) now is 0.26 percent.
For the first time in many days, the total number of active COVID cases was less than 2000 in Odisha.
