Bhubaneswar, May 6 -- Bhubaneswar: The Covid-19 daily cases once again have crossed the 10,000-mark in Odisha with detection of 10,521 new infections in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally to 5,001,62.

Similarly, 17 patients succumbed to the disease during the period.

Of the new cases, as many as 5945 have been detected from quarantine centres while rests of the cases are local contacts.

As many as 6176 patients have recovered in last 24 hours pushing the total number of recoveries to 416403. Now, the State has 81,585 active cases.

With 1,477 fresh cases, Khordha continued to remain in the first position followed by Sundergarh which reported 1,186 cases. Cuttack with 963 new cases remained third in the row while Kalahandi st...