761 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

761 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

761 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Bhubaneswar, Aug 23: 761 Covid-19 positive cases were found in the State in the last 24 hours thereby taking the total infection count in the state to 1001698 on Monday.

From these fresh cases, 443 were detected from quarantines whereas the rest 318 came as the local contacts.

Similarly, today 101 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: 16 

2. Balasore: 52 

3. Bargarh: 18

4. Bhadrak: 8 

5. Balangir: 2 

6. Boudh: 1 

7. Cuttack: 117 

8. Deogarh: 12 

9. Dhenkanal: 12 

10. Gajapati: 2 

11. Ganjam: 3 

12. Jagatsinghpur: 18 

13. Jajpur: 35 

14. Jharsuguda: 1 

15. Kandhamal: 3 

16. Kendrapada: 15 

17. Keonjhar: 5 

18. Khurda: 289 

19. Malkangiri: 2 

20. Mayurbhanj: 24

21. Nawarangpur: 1 

22. Nayagarh: 12 

23. Puri: 13 

24. Rayagada: 5 

25. Sambalpur: 20 

26. Sonepur: 1 

27. Sundargarh: 10 

Besides, 64 cases were reported from the State pool.