A health department official said that 29 out of 30 districts of Odisha have been declared green zones as active COVID-19 cases have been reported across the state. He said that Khurda is the only district that has been identified as Yellow Zone where more than 2,000 active cases have been reported, while in all other districts the figure is less than 1,000. Meanwhile, the state on Tuesday reported 453 fresh COVID-19 cases, including 53 children below the age of 18, raising the tally to 10,28,819. The death toll rose to 8,223 with three more deaths.
Odisha now has 4,935 active cases and 10,15,608 patients have recovered from the disease so far, the official said. Of the fresh infections, 265 were detected in the quarantine centers and the rest were local-contact cases. Khurda district, which includes state capital Bhubaneswar, reported the highest single-day cases at 201, followed by Cuttack (59) and Jagatsinghpur (24).
He said the infection rate among children and adolescents stood at 11.69 per cent as against 18.18 per cent recorded on the previous day. Odisha has conducted over 2.02 crore sample tests so far, including 58,223 on Monday. The positivity rate of the state is 5.06 percent.
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