853 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

853 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

853 MORE TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Bhubaneswar, Aug 22853 Covid-19 positive cases were found in the State in the last 24 hours thereby taking the total infection count in the state to 1000937 on Sunday.

From these fresh cases, 496 were detected from quarantines whereas the rest 357 came as the local contacts.

Similarly, today 100 more youngsters aged 0 to 18 years were found to be infected with Covid-19.

According to the data furnished on its Twitter account of the Information and Public Relations Department, the new cases were detected from 30 districts of the State.

District Wise Cases:

1. Angul: 29 

2. Balasore: 46 

3. Bargarh: 12

4. Bhadrak: 18 

5. Balangir: 2 

6. Cuttack: 140 

7. Deogarh: 13 

8. Dhenkanal: 10 

9. Gajapati: 1 

10. Ganjam: 11 

11. Jagatsinghpur: 32 

12. Jajpur: 33 

13. Jharsuguda: 2 

14. Kalahandi: 3 

15. Kandhamal: 1 

16. Kendrapada: 21 

17. Keonjhar: 16 

18. Khurda: 286 

19. Koraput: 3

20. Malkangiri: 1 

21. Mayurbhanj: 21 

22. Nayagarh: 22 

23. Puri: 35 

24. Rayagada: 4 

25. Sambalpur: 19 

26. Sonepur: 1 

27. Sundargarh: 12 

Besides, 59 cases were reported from the State pool.