According to the data tweeted by the Information and Public Relations Department, eight new Covid cases, including one child below 18 years’ age, were detected from five districts in Odisha in the last 24 hours against 16 reported the preceding day.
Of the new cases, five were detected from among the quarantined people and the rest three detected as local contacts. While two cases each were reported from Cuttack, Sambalpur and Sundargarh, one case each was detected from Balangir and Khurda.
With the new infections, the State’s Covid infection tally mounted to 12,87,959.
The data also showed that eight patients recovered in the period, taking the total recoveries to 12,78,672. After recoveries and deaths (9,123 due to Covid infection and 53 for other than Covid), the State’s active cases stood at 110.