A three-day-old boy in Bhadrak district and a 1-year-old girl in Ganjam in Odisha died after SARS CoV-2 infection on Sunday. The state, which recorded the highest daily coronavirus deaths in five months, posted 19 new deaths including these two babies on Sunday when it logged the lowest number of new cases in 20 days. Four out of the new fatalities were in Bhubaneswar. The toll in the state due to the pandemic has now mounted to 8,594, a bulletin by the health department 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 percent. Infections are down by 43 percent from 8,520 a week ago. As many as 10,267 more patients recuperated and out of 62,858 sample tests 663 children were among the fresh cases.