Representative image: PTIOdisha saw the biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases with 4,270 fresh positive cases being reported in the last 24 hours.
With this, the states tally reached 1,62,920 on Wednesday.Among the new cases, 2,478 are quarantined cases and 1,792 are local contact cases.Out of 4,270 new coronavirus cases in Odisha, Khurda district led the charts with 876 cases, followed by Cuttack which saw 374 cases.Meanwhile, another 11 patients have succumbed to coronavirus while undergoing treatment in the last 24 hours in Odisha, informed the Health - Family Welfare Department on Wednesday.State capital Bhubaneswar in Khurda district has turned a Covid-19 hotspot with the latest spike.
The city now has 17,809 total cases.A total of 51,320 COVID-19 tests were conducted in Odisha in the past 24 hours, said the Health - Family Welfare Department on Wednesday.Out of this, 9,006 were RT-PCR tests, 42,202 were Rapid Antigen Tests and 112 were TrueNAT tests.
The highest, 5,410 tests, were conducted in Ganjam, followed by 5,245 in Kendrapara and 3,634 in Mayurbhanj.