Covid-19 caseload of Odisha has crossed the one lakh mark. With 3014 positive cases reported on Sunday the total tally has reached 100934.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''While the state has already conducted 1731556 sample tests, the positive rate has been hovering 5%.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''With 12 more deaths reported on Sunday, the covid-19 death toll has risen to 482.&nbsp;<br />''&nbsp;<br />''More than 70 thousand patients have also recovered from the infection.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, it took the virus more than a month to infect only 100 people after it struck the state around mid-March.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''But in a little over five months, the viral burden of the state has overshot the 1 lakh mark, despite many pre emptive measures of the state government including the weekend shutdowns, being enforced for quite some time now.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The daily discovery of more than 3000 cases over the last week has been adding to the covid tally, with district wise contribution ranging from as low as 2 in Deogarh to as high as 684 in Khordha.</span><br />
News On AIR | August 31, 2020 9:22 AM
Odisha's Covid-19 caseload crosses one lakh mark