Bhubaneswar: Active Covid-19 cases in the city mounted to 7,309 with reports of 1,233 new positives in the last 24 hours (till 9 AM of today), according to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Out of the new positives, an overwhelming 1,204 are local contact cases, while the remaining 29 are quarantine cases.
A total of 416 persons recovered from Covid-19 in the city during the same period taking the total number of recoveries from the ailment to 1,23,782.
The good news is that there have been no reports of fatalities due to Covid during the same period with the toll remaining at 1103.
While new cases have been reported from almost every part of the city, certain localities reported a very high number of cases like Khandagiri (155), Chandrasekharpur (113) Nayapalli (104), Patia (119), and Old Town (78).
Here’s the detailed list of new Covid cases detected from the city shared by BMC on Twitter.