This story is from September 20, 2021

Bhubaneswar’s active Covid positive cases up by nearly 500 in last 30 days

The state capital is the only place where active Covid cases are on the rise. A month back, the active case count was 3,292, which has now gone up to 3,778, a rise of 486. The city reported 218 new cases on Sunday against 176 recoveries.
Bhubaneswar’s active Covid positive cases up by nearly 500 in last 30 days
The state capital is the only place where active Covid cases are on the rise. A month back, the active case count was 3,292, which has now gone up to 3,778, a rise of 486. The city reported 218 new cases on Sunday against 176 recoveries.
BHUBANESWAR: The state capital is the only place where active Covid cases are on the rise. A month back, the active case count was 3,292, which has now gone up to 3,778, a rise of 486. The city reported 218 new cases on Sunday against 176 recoveries.
Experts said urban conglomeration, lifestyle and flow of people to the city from other parts of the state are leading to the capital’s Covid caseload.

Civic body officials said it is not that the daily infection among Bhubaneswar residents is high. People from neighbouring districts and other places also get themselves tested here and as a result the compiled data reflect a big jump. Officials said residents of Bhubaneswar shouldn’t be blamed alone for the daily infection rise.
Dr E Venkata Rao of Sum Hospital, who was involved in the clinical trial of Covaxin, said the city is testing more and so positive cases are also showing a rise.
“It is not that places which are not reporting cases now or are reporting a few cases have brought the infection down. It may so happen that if testing number increases there, we may get more positive cases in those places as well. In Bhubaneswar, we have a different culture, pattern of social interaction, offices, food joints and other facilities that lead to inadvertent compromise of distancing between people, resulting in spread of infection,” Rao observed.

“We need to have data on how many of the new infections are symptomatic cases,” he added.
The state reported 623 new cases from 62,917 samples tested registering a test positivity rate of 0.99%. Four districts didn’t report a single new infection while Nuapada district with only 8 active cases is at the bottom. The state reported seven more Covid deaths, taking the toll to 8,135.
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