The State has logged 123 new COVID-19 positive cases, a rise of almost 10% in the last 24 hours from 12 districts, pushing the cumulative tally to 10,54,004, the health authorities said on Monday.
On the other hand, the State has so far recorded 8 cases of Omicron variant infection after the genome sequencing of the foreign returnees.
Meanwhile, one fresh fatality took the death toll to 8,453 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.22% continued to remain below 1% for over two months. Of the new infectees, 17 are between the 0-18 years of age.
The Kandhamal and Koraput districts with no active case have turned covid-free zone while eight 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 56. The district accounted for nearly 44 per cent of the new infections while 17 out of 30 districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.
The state currently has 1,572 active COVID-19 cases while 10,43,926 patients including 144 on Sunday recovering from the disease.
As 123 samples gave positive results out of 55,084 samples tested on Saturday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.22 per cent against the previous day’s 0.20%.
The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 99.04% while active cases account for 0.14% 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 1.03% 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 4,87,86,575 COVID-19 vaccine doses while 1,98,49,089 people out of 3.09 crore eligible adult population are fully vaccinated. Over 64% of the eligible population has so far received both the doses of vaccine.