Staff Writer@Blink
Bhubaneswar, May 31: Ganjam district of Odisha Saturday became the first district across the state to report more than 400 cases of COVID 19, data from the State Health Department said.
According to the latest update, the district which has seen sudden flow of lakhs of migrants back to the region till now has reported 414 officially reported cases of the global pandemic by Saturday morning.
The state government claims that within 27 days after the relaxation of partial lockdown, 334 of them have recovered and there are only 77 active cases in the district. The cases of COVID 19 in Ganjam started surging from May 4 after the inter-state movement of stranded migrants was allowed.
It is followed by Jajpur which reported 269 cases till now while the third highest reporting district of COVID 19 in Odisha is Balasore which reported 152 cases. Khurda district which earlier had been leading in maximum cases till now has total of 138 reported cases of the viral disease.
Meanwhile the state in their latest round of sample testing has found 129 new cases of COVID 19. With the addition of 129 new cases of the global pandemic, the total cases in the state have touched 1948
The government also claimed that till now it has tested a total of 1,52,131 samples to screen for COVID 19. More than 3 lakh Odia populations who were stranded outside the state also have now come back to their home state till now. The state has now 813 active cases and 1126 cases of recoveries.
