<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, government offices have started functioning with fifty percent staff strength from today. Along with this, night curfew from 9 pm to 5 am also commences from today in view of the rapid rise in covid positive cases in the state. Odisha reported as many as 2703 fresh cases on a single day yesterday.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, There has been an exponential increase in the number of covid positive cases in the state that jumped from 428 on the second of this month to a high of 2703 yesterday. The number of active cases too have spiked from 5739 day before yesterday to 8237 as of now.<br />''<br />''Accordingly, the state government has imposed many restrictions on public gatherings wef today to contain the virus. While the Bhubaneswar Municipal Commission has declared quite a number of areas in capital Bhubaneswar as containment zones, it has also decided to subject all passengers de-boarding at Bhubaneswar airport to mandatory RT-PCR tests. </span><br />