Bhubaneswar, Jan 12 : The daily Covid load in Odisha surged to 8778 in the past 24 hours taking the total cumulative tally in the state to 10,91,547.
The test positivity rate also rose to 11.6 per cent in a single day from 10.25 reported on Tuesday while the active cases further jumped to 35,242.
However, no covid death was reported in the state for the second consecutive day and the fatalities stood at 8469. The recovery cases rose to 10,47,783 after 752 covid patients were cured of the virus on Tuesday.
Health and Family Welfare department sources said of the 8778 new infections reported from all the 30 districts, 5096 were found from the quarantine centres and 3682 from the local contact cases.
The state reported 792 positive cases in the age group of 0 to18 years. Khordha district recorded the highest number of2615 cases followed by Sundargarh (1252), Cuttack ( 766), Sambalpur ( 596) and Mayurbhanj( 388).
These five districts together accounted for 63.41 per cent of the new cases registered in the state in the past 24 hours.
Out of 35,242 active cases, the Khordha district alone accounted for 1,049 followed by Sundargarh ( 5226), Sambalpur ( 3065) and Cuttack ( 2679). These four districts already declared as Red Zone has contributed 62.4 per cent of the total active cases in the state. Balasore district with 1023 active cases has been categorized as the Yellow zone.
The Test Positivity Rate(TPR) in the state has been showing an alarmingly rising trend over the last ten days. It has gone up from less than one per cent to 11.6 per cent on Wednesday.
As many as eight districts in the state have recorded the TPR ranging from 8.4 per cent to 22.8 per cent and declared as Red Zone. They are Sundargarh (22.8), Khordha (17.1) Sambalpur(15.8)
,Cuttack ( 11.1), Bolangir (9), Jhrsuguda (8.5) and Puri ( 8.4).
Six other districts such as Nabarangpur, Bargarh, Angul, Mayurbhanj, Balasore and Jajpur have been declared as Yellow zones with a test positivity rate recording 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent.
Due to the sudden rise in the COVID-19 situation, AIIMS Bhubaneswar has taken some necessary measures for smooth and safe patient care. All Departments/sections at AIIMS Bhubaneswar have been directed to follow COVID appropriate behaviour and protocols to prevent the transmission of the infection.
To reduce the load in OPDs and break the chain of transmission all departments are advised to strengthen the “AIIMS Bhubaneswar Swasthya” App and Telemedicine (WhatsApp Call) services.
All the Telemedicine Numbers used earlier are fully functional. So, the patients are encouraged to connect more and more through these services instead of coming to OPD physically.
Similarly, it has been decided to curtail the new registrations phase-wise at AIIMS Bhubaneswar which is limited to 100 per day, except the departments like Urology, Neurology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Cardiology which will continue as before till further order. This decision came into force with effect from January 12.
The Patients have been advised to use digital platforms for healthcare service since the last three days at AIIMS, the admission of COVID-19 positive cases has gradually increased.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar is also getting ready with COVID OT, Labour OT and other COVID areas functional. Similarly, Systemic Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) Ward will be functional soon to help emergency serious patients during covid care.AIIMS Superintendent Dr S N Mohantysaid.
