Bhubaneswar: Six persons died due to COVID-19 during the last 24 hours in Odisha. As per the figures on the State COVID Dashboard, the death toll of Odisha has reached 8,500.
The fresh fatalities were reported from Khurda (2), Bhadrak (1), Cuttack (1), Jagatsinghpur (1), and Jharsuguda (1). Khurda has reported the maximum number of deaths so far with 1,614 casualties due to COVID.
On Tuesday, 11,607 new cases of COVID-19 were reported from across the State while 7,745 persons recovered. With this surge, the active caseload has gone past 96,000. At present, there are 96,371 active cases in Odisha.
