Bhubaneswar, Oct 11(UNI) Covid deaths in Odisha crossed 1,000 mark with the death of 16 more people during the past 24 hours while the overall covid tally rose to 2,52,239 with the detection of 2546 new cases from all the 30 districts.
Health and Family Welfare department sources said in the last 24 hours, four Covid patients died in Balasore, three died in Bhubaneswar, two each from Dhenkanal and Khordha and one each from Gajapati, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Koraput and Puri raising the covid toll in the state to 1022.
Out of the 2546 new cases, 1504 were from quarantine centres and 1042 local contact cases.
Of the new covid positive cases Khordha led the tally with 410 new cases followed by Anugul 208, Sundargarh 161, Cuttack 34,Mayurbhanja 120, and Balasore 103.
Baragarha reported 92 cases, followed byJajpur 90, Nuapada 88, Jagatsinghpur 86,Bolangir 85, Sambalpur 84; Nabarangpur 60, Kalahandi 75, Jharsuguda 57, Kendrapara 75, Kandhamal 49,Koraput. 72, Nayagarha48 and Puri 70.
Ten districts reported less than 50 positive cases.
As of midnight of October 10 last, 45,079 sample tests were conducted.
Odisha Covid case tally stands at 2,52,239, of which 26, 891 are active cases and 2,24,273 have recovered.
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