Bhubaneswar: As many as 68 more persons in Odisha contracted COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking the state’s total caseload to 3,36,835.
Of the total fresh cases detected from 21 districts, 40 have been reported from different quarantine centres while 28 are local contact cases. Contact tracing and follow-up action is underway, said Information and Public Relation (I & PR ) Department today.
Khordha recorded highest 9 fresh cases followed by Sambalpur (7) and Balasore, Balangir and Sundargarh with 6 each.
Currently, the number of total active cases in the state stands at 625 and recovered cases at 3,34,243.