State’s active positive cases decline with 25k recoveries

Bhubaneswar: As hoped by chief minister Naveen Patnaik, the number of recovered Covid patients in the state crossed 25,000 with 1255 more getting discharged on Wednesday.
Describing this as a ‘momentous occasion’ in the state’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Naveen said, “All credit for the high recovery rate goes to our Covid warriors.”
In the last 24 hours 1337 more tested positive for the virus, raising the total positive cases to 39,018 even as nine patients died, taking the death toll to 225.
With more than 2,600 patients recovering in the last two days, Odisha, which was 10th among Indian states in terms of active positive cases, improved to 12th position. Odisha’s active positive cases of 13,011 is less than Assam (13,616) and Rajasthan (13,630).
The state’s recovery percentage improved to around 66% compared to 63% last week with the number of cured going up to 25,738.
The highest – 485 patients – recovered from the worst-hit Ganjam taking its cure rate to around 73%. Of the 11,812 positive cases in the district, 8,621 have recovered. Among others, Khurda (125), Sundargarh (122), Sambalpur (107) and Puri (75) saw impressive recoveries.
The health department said the new deaths include seven men and two women. Five patients in Ganjam including four men aged 42, 53, 59 and 63 years and a 52-year-old woman died from the virus, raising the district’s Covid toll to 117. One man each died in Gajapati (27), Keonjhar (21) and Sundargarh (55) while a 60-year-old woman died in Khurda.
Two positive patients died due to non-Covid reasons, raising the deaths due to comorbidities to 44.
The new positive cases include the highest 201 from Ganjam followed by Khurda (196), Cuttack (168), Sundargarh (83), Keonjhar (80), Puri (73), Sambalpur (72) and Nayagarh (60).
“The number of new positive cases are declining in Ganjam and Khurda, the two districts accounting for lion’s share of the viral load,” said Ajay Parida, director, Institute of Life Sciences.