COVID-19: With 31 patients cured in Odisha, tally of recovered people reaches 116

Thirty-one COVID-19 infected persons in Odisha were on Tuesday (May 12) declared cured of the highly infectious disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the state to 116, a Health Department official said.

All the patients who have been cured hail from Jajpur district which reported a total of 64 cases. The district has been identified as one of the red zones in the state, he said. Similarly, at least 17 persons were cured of COVID-19 on Monday, the official said, adding that Tuesdays recovery number was an all-time high. The number of active cases in the state is now 318, he said.

A total of 437 novel coronavirus cases have been reported in the state till 8 pm on Tuesday (May 12), the official said. With this, the number of COVID-19 active cases in Jajpur has come down to 31 from 62. Two persons from the district had recovered earlier.

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The highest number of recoveries so far has been witnessed in capital Bhubaneswar, where 37 of the 50 COVID-19 patients have been cured of the disease, he said. Similarly, 13 of the 14 COVID-19 patients in Sundergarh district and 11 of the 57 patients in Balasore have recovered, the official said. However, all the 137 cases in Ganjam district are still active.