 "Odisha coronavirus update: Tally crosses 200,000; death toll mounts to 767")
Odisha's COVID-19 tally
breached the 2 lakh-mark on Friday as 4,208 more people tested positive for the infection, while 15 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 767, a health official said.
The fresh infections, reported from all the 30 districts, have taken the state's caseload to 2,01,096, he said.
As many as 2,462 new cases were reported in quarantine centres, while 1,746 infections were detected during contact tracing, the official said.
Khurda district, under which Bhubaneswar falls, has reported the highest number of new cases at 725, followed by Cuttack (465) and Jajpur (237), he said.
Khurda also reported the highest number of fresh fatalities at four, followed by three in Puri, two in Mayurbhanj and one each in Angul, Bolangir, Cuttack, Kandhamal, Kendrapara, and Rayagada districts, the official said.
Odisha now has 39,232 active coronavirus cases, while 1,61,044 people have recovered from the disease so far, he said.
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Fifty-three COVID-19 patients have died due to other ailments so far, the official said.
The state has so far tested over 30.09 lakh samples for COVID-19, including 52,882 on Thursday, he added.