Odisha completes a year of battle against pandemic

Odisha’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 3,38,258 after 66 more persons tested positive for the virus on Monday, as the State completed one year of its battle against the pandemic, a health department official said.

On March 15, 2020, the State detected its first COVID-19 case, an Italy returned research scholar at the Capital Hospital here, the official said. There was panic after the State’s Chief COVID-19 Spokesperson Subrato Bagchi announced that the first patient had come in contact with 129 people, including 76 train passengers.