Sex ratio at child birth in Odisha dips in last 10 years
The coastal state is facing a disturbing trend of gender imbalance with a decline in sex ratio at birth for children born in Odisha in the last decade.
The coastal state is facing a disturbing trend of gender imbalance with a decline in sex ratio at birth for children born in Odisha in the last decade.
As the weather goes from bad to worse, those unwilling to shift to the safety of shelter houses are not taking any chances, cooperating with the officials in the evacuation process.
Two fresh fatalities took the death toll to 8,341 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.41% continued to remain below 1% for almost a month.
As 208 samples gave positive results out of 51,830 samples tested on Friday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.40 per cent as against previous day’s 0.30%.
An Olive Ridley usually lays about 120 to 150 eggs from which hatchlings emerge after about 45 to 50 days.
The state currently has 4,623 active COVID-19 cases while 10,26,277 patients including 360 on Monday recovering from the disease.
Of the new infectees, 86 were children. The rate of infection of children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years now is 18.41% against the previous day’s 15.64 per cent, he said.
A total of 1,931 cyber crimes were reported in 2020, an increase of 30.03 per cent from 1,485 in the previous year and staggering 129 per cent from 843 in 2018, NCRB report stated.
