Bhubaneswar: The daily case count of Covid-19 in the city on Friday registered a nominal increase of 0.27% over the previous day.
The city in the last 24 hours reported 1502 new Covid-19 positives, out of which 1431 are local contact cases, according to information shared by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
While the city’s active caseload stands at 10938 registering a marginal rise of 2.45%, the good news is that no new fatalities due to Covid-19 were recorded during the same period.
Meanwhile, in the city 1240 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease, taking the cumulative tally of recoveries to 1,28,644.
The maximum number of local contact cases have been reported from Khandagiri (163), Patia (137), Nayapalli (117), Chandrasekharpur (93), Old Town (91).
Here’s the detail of the new Covid-19 positives.