IF Desk
A day ahead of a two-week lockdown announced by the Naveen Patnaik government recently to counter the rapid spread of Covid-19 in Odisha, the state has registered 8,216 new cases and 15 deaths over the past 24 hours.
Of the total daily Covid cases, 4,884 came from quarantine centres around the state while the remaining 3,532 were from local contacts, as per data released by the state Information and Public Relations department.
With this, the total Covid-19 caseload and death toll in Odisha since the start of the pandemic has risen to 4,79,752 and 2,088, respectively.
The district of Khordha has once again accounted for highest number of deaths, with five reported in the past 24 hours. It was followed by Rayagada with three deaths, Sundergarh and Kalahandi with two each, and Cuttack, Puri and Sonepur reporting the remaining three.
The total number of recoveries in the state has gone up to to 4,04,063, with 73,548 active cases at present.
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