The COVID-19 cases in the coastal State rose by almost 52% in the last 24 hours as 318 fresh infections were detected from 24 districts, pushing the cumulative tally to 10,43,469, the health authorities said.

Three fresh fatalities took the death toll to 8,357 while the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) at 0.50% continued to remain below 1% for almost a month.

Odisha registered more COVID-19 recoveries than new cases as 425 people recuperated from the disease. This is for the fourth successive day that the State’s recoveries have surpassed the daily tally.

Of the new infectees, 58 were children. The rate of infection of children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years now is 18.23% against the previous day’s 11.05 per cent.

The Khordha district reported the highest number of daily cases at 139. The district accounted for nearly 44 per cent of the new infections while 6 out of 30 districts did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile five- Kandhamal (1), Boudh (2), Nabarangpur and Keonjhar (4), Deogarh (7) – districts are on the verge of becoming Covid-free with single digit active cases. On the other hand, Khordha district continues to record a maximum number of infections and stays in the yellow zone with 1,538 active cases.

The state currently has 3,209 active COVID-19 cases while 10,31,850 patients including 425 on Saturday recovering from the disease.

As 318 samples gave positive results out of 62,842 samples tested on Friday, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 0.50 per cent as against previous day’s 0.40%.

The state’s positivity rate also stands at 4.67 percent while more than 2.23 crore samples have been clinically tested so far since the detection of COVID-19 in March, 2020 in the State.

The State’s recovery rate currently stands at 98.88% while active cases account for 0.30% of total positive cases registered in the State.

The State’s share is 3.04% in the country’s confirmed virus caseload while the active cases are 2.1% of India’s total active cases. The number of cured patients accounts for 3.07% of the country’s total recovery. Odisha has so far reported 1.82% of the country’s Coronavirus deaths.

A total of 3,87,91,593 vaccine-eligible adult population has so far been administered with COVID-19 jibes. Of them 2,62,93,171 were inoculated with the first dose while 1,24,98,422 were fully vaccinated. The State accounts for 3.09 crore vaccine-eligible people while the government has a target to inoculate all the eligible people with the first dose of the vaccine.