Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Saturday said that 19 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours.
While four of them are home quarantine cases, remaining 15 are local contact ones. A vast majority of the fresh cases were reported among healthcare workers.
“Further contact tracing is still continuing. Primary contacts & nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitised and will be under active surveillance,” BMC said. It further added that all positive cases have been shifted to dedicated COVID hospitals.
Update on newly detected & cured #COVID19 cases in the last 24 hrs under the BMC area on 20 Jun 2020(till 9am).
Further contact tracing is still continuing.
Primary contacts & nearby houses are being quarantined, sanitised & will be under active surveillance. pic.twitter.com/6oZbWc33hJ— BMC (@bmcbbsr) June 20, 2020
According to a notification issued by the civic body, as of Saturday, 184 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Bhubaneswar out of which 86 have recovered. While there are 94 active cases, three persons succumbed to the disease.