Odisha reports 214 new COVID cases, including 30 children
Bhubaneswar, Sep 16: Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,31,353 on Friday as 214 more people, including 30 children, tested positive for the infection, a health department bulletin said.
The COVID-19 death toll rose to 9,186 as a 71-year-old man succumbed to the disease in Jagatsinghpur district. Fifty-three other patients have died due to comorbidities so far, it said.
The state had recorded 286 infections on Thursday.
Odisha currently has 1,664 active COVID-19 cases, while 234 more people have recuperated from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 13,20,450.
India sees a rise in active COVID cases at 46,748
The state's daily positivity rate was at 1.57 per cent as it tested 13,634 samples for the infection in the last 24 hours.