Bhubaneswar: Country capital is the only place where Covid active cases increase.
A month, the number of active cases is 3,292, which has now risen to 3,778, up 486.
The city reported 218 new cases on Sunday against 176 recovery.
Experts say urban conglomerates, lifestyle and flow of people to the city from other parts of the country lead to covid caseload.
Civil body officials said it was not that daily infection among the residents of Bhubaneswar high.
People from neighboring districts and other places also test themselves here and as a result the compiled data reflects a big leap.
Officials said Bhubaneswar residents should not be blamed alone for the increase in daily infections.
Dr.
E Venkata Rao from Sum Hospital, who was involved in Covaxin’s clinical trial, said the city tested more positive cases also showed an increase.
“Not a place that does not report the current case or report some cases have lowered infection.
This might happen that if the test number increases there, we might get more positive cases in those places.
In Bhubaneswar, we have a different culture, pattern Social interaction, office, food joints and other facilities that lead to unintentional compromises distance between people, which results in the spread of infection, “Rao was observed.
“We need to have data about how much new infection is a symptomatic case,” he added.
The country reported 623 new cases from 62,917 tested samples registering the level of expositivity of the test 0.99%.
Four districts did not report a new infection while the District Nubada with only 8 active cases at the bottom.
The state reported seven Covid deaths again, took the victim to 8,135.