Bhubaneswar, Jan 9: Odisha registered 4714 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the positive tally to 10,70,869 in the State. For the first time so far in 2022 that the single-day tally count breached the 4,500 mark in the State.
Out of the total, 416 positives were reported in the 0-18 years age group while 2755 and 1959 cases were from quarantine and local contacts respectively.
Khordha district reported maximum 1619 cases, followed by Sundergarh (662), Sambalpur (437), and Cuttack (360) says I & PR department.
A total of eight districts reported Covid-19 cases in three digits in the past 24 hours. On Saturday, Odisha had witnessed the biggest single-day spike with 3,679 cases. It was the highest single-day count since June 2021.
With this, active cases in Odisha have now gone up to 16117. So far, 1046231 Covid-19 infected have recovered in the State since the outbreak of the pandemic.
