Bhubaneswar, May 3 () Three more persons, includingtwo Surat returnees, have tested positive for COVID-19 inOdisha, taking the total number of such cases in the state to160, official sources said.
Ganjam district, which had so far been a green zone,reported its first COVID-19 cases, after the two, who returnedfrom Gujarat recently, were diagnosed with the disease.
The third patient to have tested positive for thedisease is a woman from Jharsuguda district, the sources said.
With Ganjam, the home district of Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik, registering two cases, the number of districtsunder the grip of COVID-19 increased to 16 in the state.Odisha has a total of 30 districts.
Both the Surat returnees, aged 17 and 22 years, wereasymptomatic, the sources said, adding that contract-tracingand follow-up action have been initiated.
A total of 2,065 samples were tested for COVID-19 inthe last 24 hours, an official in the Health and FamilyWelfare Department said.
So far, Odisha has examined 38,658 samples.
Of the 160 cases in the state, the number of activecases stands at 103 as 56 have recovered. One person fromBhubaneswar succumbed to the disease on April 6.
Jajpur district in Odisha has reported the highestnumber of novel coronavirus cases at 48, followed byBhubaneswar in Khurda at 47, Balasore at 20, Bhadrak at 19 andSundergarh at 10. AAMRMS RMS