Odisha: 146 new COVID-19 cases; tally crosses 4,000

Odisha's COVID-19 tally on Monday crossed 4,000-mark, with 146 more people, including nine disaster response personnel, testing positive for infection, a Health Department official said.

With se fresh patients, total number of COVID-19 cases in state rose to 4,055, he said.

Of 146 cases, 128 were detected in various quarantine centres where people returning from different states are staying, while 18 were found in contact-tracing exercises, official said.

" new cases included nine disaster response personnel of state fire service, who were engd in post-cyclone-Amphan restoration works in West Bengal and h returned from re," he said.

With this, total number of disaster response men getting infected with disease has increased to 158.

Odisha has w 1,333 active cases, while 2,708 people have recovered from disease.

Eleven people have succumbed to disease, while three or COVID-19 patients have also died in state, but ir deaths were attributed to or reasons. new cases were reported from 15 districts.

Kandhamal reported highest of 48 fresh cases, followed by 19 each from Bhrak and Cuttack and eight each from Balasore and Ganjam.

Seven cases were detected in Khurda, six in Angul, five in Rayaga, four each in Jagatsinghpur, Nayagarh and Sundergarh, two in Sonepur and one each from Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Dhenkanal.

state health department conducted 2,499 tests on Sunday, while over 2.25 lakh samples have been tested in state so far, official ded.