<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, the covid-19 active caseload has further gone down to 26891. With the recovery of 3342 patients during the last 24 hours, the cumulative recovery has increased to 2,27,615.<br />''<br />''While the virus is far from taking a turnaround in the state, it continues to trail behind the number of patients getting cured everyday. As against a daily infection of less than 3000, the daily recovery has been on the higher side of 3000 during the last few days.<br />''<br />''Though the cumulative caseload crossed 2.5 lakh mark yesterday, the infection is active for only less than 27000 patients as on date.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile the state government, actively chasing the virus, has been appealing to the people having cough, cold and fever to volunteer for covid-19 test to ensure an early exit for the virus.</span><br />