A health department official said Odisha’s COVID-19 was tested to 3,38,258 after testing positive for the virus on Monday, as the state completed one year of its fight against the epidemic.
The official said that on March 15, 2020, the state detected its first COVID-19 case, Italy returned to the research scholar at Capital Hospital here.
State Chief COVID-19 spokesman Subroto Bagchi announced that the first patient was 129 people, including 76 railway passengers.
A series of measures such as shutdown, lockdown, curfew, night curfew and closure of religious places, business establishments and educational institutions were followed to detect the first coronavirus case.
1,918 died of disease
While 1,918 people have died in the state in this one year, more than 99% of Keseload’s 3,35,660 patients have also been recovered.
On March 14, a day before the first COVID-19 case was traced, the Odisha government declared the epidemic a ‘state disaster’.
A week later, the administration announced a lockout in five coastal districts to prevent the spread of the virus. Subsequently, the lockdown was expanded to all 30 districts.
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