Bhubaneswar:20/4/20: Till Monday afternoon, 74 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 out of the 10,641 samples tested so far in Odisha, said Subroto Bagchi, Chief Spokesperson of Odisha Government for COVID-19 management.
In Odisha, 24 persons have recovered after testing negative for COVID-19 and one person has succumbed to the disease. This means, till April 20 afternoon, Odisha has 49 active coronavirus cases.
Today, 13 cases were reported in Odisha out of which five are from Bhadrak, five from Jajpur, one 40-year-old male from Bisra in Sundergarh, one 32-year-old male from Balasore and a two-year-old child from Balasore, Bagchi said.
In India, till yesterday midnight, 17,265 COVID-19 positive cases were reported and 543 persons have lost their lives.
In the world, 24,18,559 persons have been affected and 1,65,741 have died due to COVID-19. Total 11,015 deaths have been reported across the world in the last 48 hours, Bagchi added.