Bhubaneswar, January 12: Odisha on Wednesday reported 67 fresh Omicron cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. With this the number of Omicron cases rose to 170 in the State.
The Institute of Life Science (ILS), Bhubaneswar, has informed the Health and Family Welfare Department about detection of the Omicron variant cases after conducting genome sequencing of the samples.
Meanwhile, the State has reported 8,778 fresh COVID-19 positive cases on Wednesday taking the active caseload to 35,242.
Out of the 8,778 cases, 792 are children below 18 years of age. Highest 2,615 cases were reported from Khurda district, followed by Sundargarh (1252), Cuttack (766), Sambalpur (596), Mayurbhanj (338), Balasore (231), Balangir (216), Puri (216) and Jharsuguda (203). Remaining districts have reported below 200 cases.
A total of 74,611 samples were tested in the State in the past 24 hours. The daily test positivity rate (TPR) increased to 11.76 per cent from 10.25 per cent recorded on the previous day.
Districts like Sundargarh, Khurda, Sambalpur and Cuttack have been put under red zone due to reporting of high number of cases while Balasore has been classified as yellow zone. Remaining 25 districts are under the green zone as these districts have recorded below 1,000 active cases.
