Puri, Mar 28: The Jagannath Temple Administration has decided to close Jagannath temple on every Sunday for sanitisation.

The decision to close the temple once a week was taken after surge in Covid-19 cases in Odisha. As many as 290 persons in the state tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

A maximum of 71 cases were reported from Khordha district, followed by Nuapada (40), Jharsuguda (21) and Cuttack district (16).