Bhubaneswar: Odisha has reported 1480 fresh cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours taking the total number of infections in the state to 1273003. The number of active cases has dropped to 15980 with the recovery of 3126 patients in the last 24 hours. In the last 24 hours 21 persons lost their lives to the infection taking the total number of deaths in the state to 8818.