Bhubaneswar, Sept. 7 -- Bhubaneswar: Odisha continued to witness surge in Covid-19 cases with ten more deaths and 3861 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, informed the State Health and Family Welfare department.

With this, the death toll due to the virus rose to 556 while the cumulative caseload reached 127892 which included 30919 active cases and 96364 recoveries, added the State H&FW department.

Three COVID deaths were reported from Ganjam while Rayagada, Nayagarh, Kalahandi, Balasore, Koraput, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar in Khurda districts reported one death each.

Similarly, of the fresh cases, 2278 were detected from various quarantine centres while 1583 are local contact cases.

According to the data shared by I & PR dep...