The state currently has 1,804 active COVID-19 cases while 10,43,045 patients including 170 on Tuesday recovering from the disease.
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The coastal State has logged 183 new COVID-19 positive cases, a rise of almost 26% in the last 24 hours from 17 districts, pushing the cumulative tally to 10,53,349, the health authorities said on Wednesday.
One fresh fatality took the death toll to 8,447 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.32% continued to remain below 1% for almost two months. Of the new infectees, 30 are between 0-18 years of age.
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The Kandhamal and Keonjhar districts with no active case have turned covid-free zone while six more districts with single-digit active cases are on the verge of becoming infection-free territories.
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The Khordha district reported the highest number of daily cases at 99. The district accounted for almost 55 percent of the new infections while 13 out of 30 districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.
The state currently has 1,804 active COVID-19 cases while 10,43,045 patients including 170 on Tuesday recovering from the disease.
As 183 samples gave positive results out of 55,794 samples tested on Saturday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.32 percent against the previous day’s 0.27%.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 99.02% while active cases account for 0.17% of total positive cases registered in the State.
The State’s share is 3.07% in the country’s confirmed virus caseload while the active cases are 1.18% of India’s total active cases. The number of cured patients accounts for 3.1% of the country’s total recovery. Odisha has so far reported 1.84% of the country’s Coronavirus deaths.
The state’s health authorities have so far administered 4,76,01,482 COVID-19 vaccine doses while 1,88,95,864 people out of 3.09 crore eligible adult population are fully vaccinated. Over 60% of the eligible population has so far received both doses of vaccine.
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