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students of a girl's school in Odisha's Chamakpur area has tested positive Covid-19 virus. 

that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday.Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades.An Odisha government statement revised the death toll to 275 after a top state officer put the number at over 300 on Sunday morning. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to reporters.Jaya Verma Sinha, a senior railway official, said the preliminary investigations revealed that a signal was given to the high-speed Coromandel Express to run on the main track line, but the signal later changed, and the train instead entered an adjacent loop line where it rammed into a freight loaded with iron ore.Rescue workers gather around damaged carriages during search for survivors at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, about 200 km (125 miles) from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, on June 3, 2023.

COVID-19 fatalities, the highest-ever in a single day, pushing the toll to 4,248, while 2,803 new cases raised the tally to 9,24,699, a health department official said.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Sunday reported 4,469 new COVID-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 8,51,782, a Health Department official said.Forty-five more deaths pushed the toll to 3,302, he said.Of the new infections, 2,546 were reported from quarantine centres, while the rest 1,923 were local contact cases.Khurda district, where state capital Bhubaneswar is located, reported the highest 612 new cases, followed by Cuttack (413), Jajpur (370) and Balasore (318).The fresh fatalities were reported from 19 different districts.

Odisha Covid updateMeanwhile, Odisha's Covid-19 tally mounted to 3,40,194 on Sunday as 290 more people, including 10 students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), tested positive for the infection.Of the new cases, 171 were reported from quarantine centres and 119 detected during contact tracing.The coastal state recorded over 200 fresh cases for four consecutive days, starting from March 25.It had reported 210 new cases on Saturday, while 234 more people were diagnosed with the disease on Friday and 214 on Thursday.Khurda district, of which state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the highest number of new cases at 71, followed by Nuapada (94) and Jharsuguda (21)."Samples of 40 students of IIT, Bhubaneswar were tested through

Odisha's COVID 19 tally on Friday rose to 2,98,768, with 1,494 more people testing positive for the infection, while 15 fresh fatalities pushed the toll to 1,393, a senior health department official said.Of the 1,494 cases, 867 were reported from quarantine centres, and the rest detected during contact tracing.Khurda district, of which the state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the maximum number of fresh cases at 153, followed by Cuttack at 112 and Balasore at 102, the senior official said.Taking to Twitter, the health and family welfare department expressed regret that 15 more COVID-19 patients have succumbed to the viral disease.Three fresh fatalities were reported from Khurda and Sambalpur districts, two each from Mayurbhanj and

BHUBANESWAR : Odisha on Saturday reported record 2,496 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the state's tally to 57,126, a health department official said.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha capital Bhubaneswar on Monday become coronavirus free with the recovery of all the 48 COVID-19 patients in the city, an official said.

Bhubaneswar: After announcing total shutdown in state capital Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak town, the Odisha government on Friday extended the shutdown to Cuttack city after a coronavirus positive case was detected in that city, the sixth in the state.