Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 toll mounted to 9 as a 55-year-old man of Ganjam district succumbed to the disease during treatment, official sources said on Sunday.
He had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment at a COVID hospital. He was suffering from tuberculosis and other comorbidities, sources said.
On the other hand, as many as 75 more persons from 16 districts tested positive for COVID-19 in Odisha taking the tally to 2856.
Out of the 75 cases, 72 were detected from quarantine centres while 3 are local contact cases, sources added. With this, the number of active cases in the state rose to 1129.
