The State is testing more than 3,000 samples per day with 50,514 samples being tested by midnight on Wednesday. It announced it would increase its testing capacity. The State government has been putting all those returning at quarantine centres set up at the gram panchayat level. More than 39,000 of the migrants had returned by Thursday, according to officials. Odisha is expecting five lakh people to return in the coming weeks. Of the 219 cases, 155 were undergoing treatment at different exclusiveĬOVID-19 hospitals while 62 persons had recovered and two had died. The first two persons detected in the district on May 2 had also returned from Surat. The migration-prone Ganjam district was converted into a red zone since it had reported 36 cases in less than a week. The capital had reported 47 cases earlier. Three new cases were detected in three different locations in Bhubaneswar city and a West Bengal returnee was found positive in Jagatsinghpur district. West Bengal returnee was found positive in the Jagatsinghpur district.Īlso read: Odisha taking steps for smooth return of migrant workers: Naveen Patnaik Of the 34 cases - 24 including a woman in Ganjam district, four in Mayurbhanj district and two in Balasore district - were those who returned from Surat recently. Odisha registered the highest single day spike inĬOVID-19 positive cases with detection of 34 cases pushing its total to 219 on Thursday.
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