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BHUBANESWAR: Twenty-one more Covid patients, the highest-ever in a day in the state, succumbed to the infection on Saturday taking the overall toll to 2,161.
The state recorded 11,807 more cases, of which Cuttack’s share was 1,052 infections. With this, the state’s overall positivity rate since the outbreak of the pandemic, has crossed five per cent.
Cuttack, which has been witnessing a spurt in cases like its neighbour Khurda, has so far reported 150 deaths with two more patients dying of Covid on Saturday. It had 7,186 active cases as on Saturday, which is 3,000 less than its neighbour Bhubaneswar. In the first wave, Cuttack’s highest single-day spike had almost touched 600 (595).
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