Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 218 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s total caseload to 3,40,620, informed the I&PR department on its Twitter handle, Tuesday. Among the new cases, 129 were reported from quarantine centres while 89 contracted the virus locally....

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 1,20,95,855 with 56,211 more people testing positive for the infection in a span of 24 hours. However, it was some relief for the country as it registered a slight dip in the total number of new COVID-19 cases....

Bhawanipatna: Worrying signs indeed. It seems that the COVID-19 virus is targeting educational institutions. The Pragati Science Higher Secondary School, a private institution here reported 32 positive COVID-19 cases Tuesday. As a precautionary measure, the district administration has declared the school as ‘Containment Zone’. Confirming...

Patiala: Captain of the Indian women’s T20 cricket team, Harmanpreet Kaur has tested positive for COVID-19. Harmanpreet Kaur is experiencing mild symptoms. Kaur did not play in the T20 series against South Africa in Lucknow after injuring herself March 17 in the fifth ODI. She got...

Rourkela: Six more students and a staff of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela have tested positive for COVID-19. This information was given by NIT officials here Monday. With the new infections, the total number of positive cases in NIT has gone up to 14....

Washington: The COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer with BioNTech and Moderna can reduce the risk of infection by 80 per cent within two weeks or more after the first of two shots. This information is according to data from a real-world study of vaccinated US...

Chhatrapur: In view of rising cases of COVID-19, Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange Monday asked sarpanchs, Zilla Parishad members and other officials to request those staying outside Ganjam to not visit the district. At a time when the virus has already made a comeback, people in...

New Delhi: Eight states including Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab have reported a high number of daily COVID-19 cases and account for 84.5 per cent of the 68,020 fresh cases recorded in the country in a day, the Union Health Ministry said Monday. On the other...

Beijing: A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is ‘extremely unlikely’, according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated...

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar claimed that its campus is completely ‘COVID-19 free’ though some coronavirus cases have been detected in the isolated quarantine centre. So far the campus has been COVID free except for 5 cases in September, 2020 and now...