7291 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Bhubaneswar, Jan 24: 7291 Covid-19 positive cases were found in the State in the last 24 hours thereby taking the total infection count in the state to 1211951 on Monday.

From these fresh cases, 4941 were detected from quarantines whereas the rest 3579 came as the local contacts.

Similarly, today 954 more youngsters aged 0 to 18 years were found to be infected with Covid-19.

According to the data furnished on its Twitter account of the Information and Public Relations Department, the new cases were detected from 30 districts of the State.

District Wise Cases:

1. Angul: 183 

2. Balasore: 343 

3. Bargarh: 130 

4. Bhadrak: 97 

5. Balangir: 218 

6. Boudh: 55  

7. Cuttack: 561 

8. Deogarh: 62 

9. Dhenkanal: 96 

10. Gajapati: 95 

11. Ganjam: 50 

12. Jagatsinghpur: 121 

13. Jajpur: 203 

14. Jharsuguda: 83 

15. Kalahandi: 173 

16. Kandhamal: 98 

17. Kendrapada: 109 

18. Keonjhar: 132 

19. Khurda: 1705 

20. Koraput: 111 

21. Malkangiri: 57

22. Mayurbhanj: 229 

23. Nawarangpur: 148 

24. Nayagarh: 192 

25. Nuapada: 160 

26. Puri: 116 

27. Rayagada: 295 

28. Sambalpur: 176 

29. Sonepur: 282 

30. Sundargarh: 646 

Besides, 365 cases were reported from the State pool.