<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, chief secretary Asit Tripathy held a review meeting on COVID 19 situation over a video conference with the district collectors and the chief medical officers. During the discussion, he has advised the senior officers to analyze the COVID situation in districts and redesign strategy to manage the crisis.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief secretary has taken a district-wise review of the extent of the surveillance, testing, availability of COVID care centers, COVID health facilities, and medicines . He has directed the Collectors and CDMOs to make advance arrangements in all these matters. Moreover, Additional Chief Secretary of health and family welfare department Pradipta Mohapatra informed that the state has sufficient stock of testing kits and medicines.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Collectors were asked to enhance per day sample collection at least to 500. Likewise, the-hot spot districts were asked to ramp-up the sample collection up to thousand per day for early detection and treatment.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">They were asked to utilize the antigen test kits and upload the test results in the ICMR portal on a daily basis. The Collectors were also advised to encourage and support plasma collection.  In this way, an online portal to facilitate the donors for self-registration will be created by the state government.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The portal will have the details about the availability of the plasma in different banks with their blood groupings. On the other hand, the number of people infected with the coronavirus reached 28,107 in the State. Out of which, 10 thousand 545 are active cases while 17,373 people have recovered from Covid-19 so far.</span> <br />