Bhubaneswar: Another 3645 persons in Odisha tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking the state’s total tally to 158650.Of the total fresh cases detected from 30 districts, 2151 have been reported from different quarantine centres while remaining 1494 are local contacts. Contact tracing and followup action is underway, said Information and Public Relation (I & PR ) Department. Khordha recorded highest 517 fresh cases followed by Cuttack (357 ) and Puri (246) With the new cases, the number of active cases in the state rose to 35928. However, 1,22,024 patients have recovered in the state so far. It is pertinent to mention here that total 43,940 number of samples were tested in the state in the last 24 hours. So far 2516457 tests have been conducted in the state.