Bhubaneswar: All districts in the state back to the green zone after the Covid case actively went under 1,000 in Khurda for the first time in the second wave of pandemic on Monday.
Active cases in Khurda fell to 942 with recovery of 118 patients on Monday.
It is a district alone which has so far been in the yellow zone (active case between 1,001 and 2,500).
Active cases in the country are now below 2,000 (1,981).
Keonjhar has zero active case.
District with active cases in one digit is Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Coraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur and Nuabada – six of them are dominated by tribes.
Dr.
Jayant Panda, a government technical advisor in Covid-19, said the level of daily infection fell sharply and recovering more than new cases every day, because all districts were in the green zone.
“Vaccination exercises are running full.
But given the fact that countries such as Russia, Britain, China and Australia are reported to be a trend in the increase in daily infection with the third wave hit, there is no room for understanding as far as wearing a mask worried,” he said.
On October 13, the Khurda district had moved to the red zone (active case of more than 2,500) after remaining in the yellow zone for almost a month.
Khurda has contributed around 40 percent with the burden of the country’s daily infection for a long time.
It also recorded the highest Covid death (1,572).
On Monday, nine districts did not report a single infection while Khurda added 76 cases of 171 new infections.
Odisha tested 58,104 samples on Sunday, registering the iPositives of the test of 0.29%, the lowest in eight months.