Odisha records 3,450 new COVID-19 cases

Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 12,55,776 on Wednesday as 3,450 people tested positive for the infection, 364 more than the previous day, a health bulletin said. 

Nineteen more patients succumbed to the



infection, taking the state's coronavirus death toll to 8,648, it said. The test positivity rate rose to 5.84 per cent as 59,040 samples were examined in the last 24 hours. The infections plunged by 53.5 per cent from 7,416 a week ago.