India Covid Crisis: Massive surge in cases in Odisha
Web Report/Bhubaneshwar Filed on May 7, 2021
The past 10 days have seen the state reporting over 8,000 cases a day and the toll has risen to 12 a day.
States including Bihar and Odisha, which had not witnessed a Covid flare-up unlike Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala over the past few weeks, are now experiencing a massive surge in cases.
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Odisha reported over 12,000 cases, a 16.31 per cent jump in just one day. It was the first time that the figure breached the 12,000 mark. The state government imposed a complete lockdown for 14 days from Wednesday, worried about the growing number of new cases.
Odisha records massive surge, 1 in 2 persons Covid positive in Kalahandi
Of the 226 samples tested including 209 through rapid antigen kits, in the last 24 hours, 126 were found to be positive.
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BHUBANESWAR: The worst fears of Odisha entering the explosive phase of Covid-19 that has the potential to overrun the healthcare system has begun to come true with the State registering a massive surge of 8,386 new cases on Wednesday.But what is more worrying is that the test positivity rate (TPR) has shot up to nearly 20 per cent that translates into one in every five persons tested. The fresh cases rose by over 38 pc in a day pushing the active cases over 50,000.
Meanwhile, the State government has rushed senior government officials to the affected districts to monitor the situation.
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BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is expected to witness a steep rise in coronavirus cases between April 15 and 25, and hit the peak of second wave by end of the month. As per a preliminary projection by three organisations, including ICMR, IIT-Bhubaneswar and Johns Hopkins University of the US, a health official said the daily caseload could touch 5,000 at its peak and the number may be sustained for a period of three weeks.
“The cases have been projected in view of the rising trend in the last one week. It may vary as the actual data comes in. The projection made by the same model closely matched the last year’s actual outcome,” he said and maintained that it will be difficult to predict the fatalities as the infection is spreading fast with less or no deaths in the State.