BHUBANESWAR : The state of Odisha on Sunday recorded the highest daily coronavirus deaths in five months. 19 people, including two babies, succumbed to the deadly virus.
The state also logged the lowest number of new cases in 20 days on Sunday, the state health department said. A three-day-old boy in Bhadrak district and a 1-year-old girl in Ganjam died from the pathogen.
Four out of the new fatalities were in Bhubaneswar, a bulletin by the health department said. The toll in the state due to the pandemic has now mounted to 8594, it said.
Odisha logged 4,843 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest in 20 days and the positivity rate was 7.7%, the bulletin stated.