Continuing its upward trend, the health department officials on Monday informed the state registering 3000-mark 382 fresh infections being detected from 5,352 samples in the last 24 hours.
According to data released by the state Health Department, Odisha now has 3,032 COVID patients with 276 patients having recovered from the infection.
It is drop of 27% since Sunday when the COVID graph breached the 500-mark, the highest single-day spike since mid-August last year, with a TPR of 7.5%. Five districts – Sundargarh, Cuttack, Nabarangpur, Balangir and Mayurbhanj – accounted for more than 70 per cent of the caseload.
The weekly TPR spiked to above 45% in Sambalpur which has the highest TPR of 48%, followed by 25% in Subarnapur, 21% in Sundargarh, 14.1% in Kalahandi and 13.94% in Nuapada.
Odisha has so far confirmed three Covid-19 deaths this year.
Meanwhile, India witnessed a significant drop in daily Covid-19 cases as the country logged 7,178 fresh cases in the past 24 hours. Active cases also fell to 65,683 from 67,806. The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 5,31,345, with 16 fatalities.
