Bhubaneswar, Feb 22: 69 more Covid-19 positive cases were detected in the State in the last 24 hours thereby taking the total infection count in Odisha to 336705 on Monday.
Of these fresh cases, 41 cases were detected from among quarantined people and the rest 28 found as local contacts.
According to the data furnished on its Twitter account of the Information and Public Relations Department, the new cases were detected from 18 districts of the State.
Among the districts today, with 12 cases Sambalpur remained at the top on the list followed by Sundergarh (11), Bargarh and Jharsuguda 6 cases each, Nuapada (5), Deogarh and Jajpur reporting 4 cases each.
1 case has been reported from the State Pool today.
Besides 54 Corona patients were also recovered in the State today.