Bhubaneswar, Jan 21 (PTI) Odisha on Friday reported a slight dip in fresh COVID-19 cases, as 9,833 more people tested positive for the virus, raising the tally to 11,87,295, the health department said in a bulletin.

The death toll mounted to 8,507 with six new fatalities, including two in Cuttack, it said.

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The state had Thursday logged 10,368 single-day infections and seven deaths.

Khurda district, where state capital Bhubaneswar is situated, registered more than a quarter of the fresh cases with 2,946 infections, followed by 1,134 in Sundargarh and 774 in Cuttack, the bulletin said.

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Odisha now has 89,702 active cases, while 10,89,033 patients have recovered from the disease, including 8,471 since Thursday.

It tested 74,443 samples for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.

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