A total of 1,296 persons recovered on Saturday taking the cumulative Covid-19 recoveries in the State to 2,50,453 with a recovery rate of 94.03 per cent.
Popularly known as Dr PVC Rao, he was the first surgeon from the Telugu speaking States to be elected as president of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) in 1994.
Khurda district, of which state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, recorded the maximum number of new cases at 70, followed by Mayurbhanj at 65 and Jagatsinghpur at 50.
According to the police, five persons were travelling in a car from the city when the car crashed into another vehicle moving ahead of it on the Outer Ring Road.