By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Hours after the Naveen Patnaik led BJD Government on Monday announced to extend the lockdown till April 30 midnight, a fresh case of COVID-19 positive was reported from Bomikhal area of the Capital City taking the total cases to 55 while Bhubaneswar alone reported 42 positive cases, sources said on late night. Earlier, 14 people from the same Bomikhal area had tested COVID Positive.
Odisha has so far reported 55 COVID-19 positive cases. While 13 persons have recovered there are 41 active cases. A 72-year-old man died due to the virus on 6 April .Sources said 35-year-old man from Bomikhal area in Bhubaneswar reported positive and had come in contact with four others diagnosed with the disease earlier. The man was staying at his home at Jaidurga Nagar of Bomikhal area since the lockdown from 22 March to 12 April.
However, he was detected with COVID-19 during surveillance in the containment zone on April 13 though he was asymptomatic, the Department Health and Family Welfare said.The patient has been admitted to the COVID-19 Hospital at the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences here.
Of the 42 cases, 34 are active while seven people have recovered and discharged from hospitals. One COVID-19 patient had died on 6 April.One person from West Bengal is also under treatment at an exclusive COVID-19 hospital here. Another man from Kalahandi district, who was infected with COVID-19, has recovered taking the total number of cured patients in the state to 13.
