One More Case Confirmed from Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Today one more patient tested positive in Balasore District of Odisha for corona virus.  1 more people testing positive for the virus on Friday morning, said the Health and Family Welfare Department.

All these cases are linked to West Bengal.

I&PR Secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh said that there was no need to panic as all the 14 cases which were detected yesterday were from a single containment zone from Jajpur district of Odisha. 

With this, Jajpur is now only second to Khurda in terms of the number of COVID cases. The Khurda district has so far reported 47 corona cases.

With these new cases, the corona positive cases in Odisha now stand at 143 which includes 41 recoveries and one death.