Odisha has achieved a significant milestone in its fight against covid-19 by conducting 1 lakh sample tests during the last 48 hours.  With 9,08,508 tests conducted so far, the state is close to crossing another milestone of conducting 1 million total tests till date.  <br />''<br />''Odisha's tally of coronavirus positive cases has reached 60,050 with the state reporting a single day spike of 2924 cases yesterday. 42,277 infected persons have also been recovered living behind 17377 active cases.<br />''<br />''Amid the daily surge in positive cases, the state government has gone into an overdrive in daily tests as well. This has led to better infection discovery paving the way for strategising the isolation and treatment of the new cases.Ganjam district, which was the the topmost Corona hotspot in the state a couple of weeks ago, now leads the test- tally with 14953 sample test in just 2 days.<br />''<br />''A positive outcome of the ramping up of tests has made Ganjam report a falling trend in positivity rate,  now down to 3.6 % against the state equivalent of 5.5% as on Sunday.  <br />''<br />''Besides, the covid care architecture in the state has also been able to pin the case fatalities down to 0.58 per cent, the lowest in the country thus far. <br />