The coastal State has logged 141 new COVID-19 positive cases, a dip of almost 10% in the last 24 hours from 20 districts, pushing the cumulative tally to 10,53,645, the health authorities said on Friday.
Two fresh fatalities took the death toll to 8,450 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.24% continued to remain below 1% for almost two months. Of the new infectees, 19 are between 0-18 years of age.
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The Kandhamal and Koraput districts with no active case have turned covid-free zone while seven more districts with single-digit active case are on the verge of becoming infection-free territories.
The Khordha district reported the highest number of daily cases at 58. The district accounted for almost 42 percent of the new infections while 10 out of 30 districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.
The state currently has 1,751 active COVID-19 cases while 10,43,391 patients including 172 on Thursday recovering from the disease.
As 141 samples gave positive results out of 57,967 samples tested on Thursday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.24 percent against the previous day’s 0.25%.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 99.02% while active cases account for 0.16% 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 1.15% 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 States health authorities have so far administered 4,82,31,128 COVID-19 vaccine doses while 1,94,11,730 people out of 3.09 crore eligible adult population are fully vaccinated. Over 62% of the eligible population has so far received both the doses of vaccine.