Odisha: 3 new Covid-19 cases in Sundargarh, state tally 103

BHUBANESWAR: With three new positive cases detected in Sundargarh district on Sunday total Covid-19 tally spiked to 103 in Odisha. The new patients included two men- a 23-year and a 60-year old, and a 57-year old woman. All three are close contacts of a person, who had tested positive earlier, revealed health and family welfare department.
Sundargarh district has reported a total six positive cases so far.However, on Saturday the government had announced three infected persons as recovered. Now the detection of three new cases on Sunday has left the administration worried. Following the new cases Rourkela Municipal Corporation declared Nala Road in Rourkela as ‘highly sensitive’ containment zone and asked people not to venture out from their homes, said Sundargarh collector Nikhil Pawan Kalyan.
The first Covid-19 positive cases in Bisra area of Sundargarh were detected on April 11. The duo, a 67 year-old man who had visited Nizamuddin and an 18-year-old boy who had come in contact with a Nizamuddin returnee. The third positive case was reported on April 20, who was a contact of the earlier patients.
Meanwhile, the state government on Sunday relaxed 60-hour long shutdown imposed in Balasore, Bhadrak and Jajpur districts but increased containment zones in places from where new cases detected. The three districts witnessed spurt in Covid-19 cases with 17 infected cases in Jajpur, 14 patients in Bhadrak and ten patients in Balasore.
With six new positive cases detected from Jajpur district on Saturday the district administration announced complete shutdown in five blocks including Jajpur, Dasrathpur, Binjharpur, Korei and Bari and Jajpur municipality area from 12 noon of April 27 to 6 pm of April 29. The whole area will be under active surveillance and samples will be collected and except medicine stores everything will remain closed. All the six contracted persons had returned from Kolkata.
Even though Bhadrak district collector Gyana Das asked people not to rush to markets and crowd shops after lifting of the shutdown as there is ample stock of essential items and vegetables, large number of people thronged markets in the district to buy essentials and vegetables.
During the shutdown, the administration in the three districts continued organised many testing camps in schools and collected over 3,000 samples.
Meanwhile, a Covid-19 positive case of Bhubaneswar who was under treatment at AIIMS has recovered and tested negative on Sunday. He is under treatment for his other chronic health conditions and will be discharged after his recovery from the other health issues, twitted health and family welfare department. With this of the total 46 cases in Bhubaneswar, 23 cases recovered and 22 are active with one death. No positive cases detected from the capital city, a major hotspot, for the last 11 days.