Odisha registers highest single-day spike of 1,833 COVID-19 cases; 12 more fatalities push death toll to 247

Odisha registered its highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases on Friday as 1,833 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. The state's COVID-19 death toll soared to 247 as 12 more patients succumbed to the infection, he said. The new infections reported from 29 of Odisha's 30 districts have pushed the state's coronavirus caseload to 42,550, the official said.

As many as 1,118 new cases were reported from quarantine centres, while 715 people tested positive for the infection during contact tracing, he said. Khurda district, under which Bhubaneswar falls, reported the highest number of new cases at 298, followed by Ganjam (279), Rayagada (152), Cuttack (124) and Sundergarh (110), the official said, adding the remaining districts registered less than 100 fresh infections each.

Ganjam and Sundergarh districts registered three fatalities each, while Mayurbhanj, Kendrapara, Sambalpur, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal and Gajapati reported one death each, he said. Mayurbhanj and Dhenkanal registered their first COVID-19 deaths, the official said. Of the 247 COVID-19 deaths reported in the state so far, Ganjam accounted for the highest at 123, followed by Khurda (31), Sundergarh (16), Gajapati (15) and Cuttack (11), he said.

Forty-five other COVID-19 patients have died due to other ailments, the official said. The new infections have taken the number of active cases in the state to 15,370, while 26,888 people have recovered from the disease so far, he said. Odisha on Thursday tested a record number of 16,055 samples for COVID-19, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 6,16,646, the official added.