Bhubaneswar, April 8 -- Bhubaneswar: The health machinery in Odisha finds itself on toes following a steep rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the State.

The State on Thursday witnessed a quantum leap in the new cases after 879 persons were detected with the infection in different districts in the past 24 hours.

The sudden spike took the active Covid-19 caseload to 4888 (excluding today's recoveries), as per the data available on the government dashboard.

It is pertinent to mention here that Odisha's daily Covid-19 cases had crossed the 500-mark on April 5 with 573 fresh cases. Prior to March 18, the State had been reporting new cases in double digits. However, barring one day ( March 20), the cases started arriving in three digits...