Bhubaneswar:
Odisha on Thursday reported its highest single-day spike of 3,991 new COVID-19 cases, taking the states tally to 1,39,121, a Health Department official said.
Eleven more fatalities pushed the death toll to 591, he said.
Most of the new cases were detected in Khurda where 687 people tested positive, followed by Cuttack (392) and Puri (332), the official said.
The fresh deaths were reported from eight districts, he said.
While two patients each died in Khurda, Cuttack and Puri districts, one each succumbed to the infection in Bhadrak, Ganjam, Koraput, Nayagarh and Rayagada districts, the official said.
Ganjam has reported most of the deaths at 214, followed by Khurda where 82 people have so far died.
There are 33,182 active cases in the state at present, while 1,05,295 people have recovered.
Odisha has so far tested 22.73 lakh samples for COVID-19, including 47,161 on Wednesday.
