<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, a 14-day state-wide lockdown came into effect in the state from today. However, certain essential services and activities including those related to agriculture have been exempted from the lockdown.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports, the first day of the 14 days long lockdown today was observed by the people more in a conscious adherence to the preventive protocols. However, the state enforcement agencies including the police are equally vigilant against the violators. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the state reported a high of about 10 thousand new cases today, thereby spiking it's active caseload to more than 77 thousand. The silver lining though is the recovery of more than 6 thousand COVID patients during the last 24 hours, that is more than half the number of fresh infections reported today.</span><br />''  <br />