Bhubaneswar: As many as 329 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Saturday.
While 110 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 219 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 341 persons who earlier tested positive for the disease have recovered.
Update on newly detected #COVID19 cases in the last
24 hrs under the BMC area on 3rd Oct 2020(till 9am).Further contact tracing is still continuing.
Primary contacts & nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitized & will be under active surveillance. pic.twitter.com/fdHmvVFaYS— BMC (@bmcbbsr) October 3, 2020
According to a notification issued by the civic body, as of Saturday, 22,876persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Bhubaneswar out of which 19,255 have recovered. While there are 3,502 active cases, 100 persons succumbed to the disease.
Meanwhile, Odisha’s COVID-19 caseload touched 2,29,387 with the detection of 3,053 new cases, while 17 more fatalities pushed its coronavirus death toll to 892. As many as 1,804 new cases were reported from quarantine centres, while 1,249 people tested positive for the infection during contact tracing.
The state Friday tested 46,404 samples for COVID-19, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 33.95 lakh.