Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: It has been two days since Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have been blessed with a baby girl. However, in spite of 48 hours passing by, the world is yet to know the newborn’s name or have a glimpse of her. Both Virat Kohli...

New Delhi: Scientists have identified and further developed novel antibody fragments from llamas and alpacas that can be used against the SARS CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19. These ‘nanobodies’ identified by an international team led by the University of Bonn in Germany are smaller than...

Bhubaneswar: The people of Odisha have another reason to smile as one day after receiving Oxford-Astrazeneca's COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, the state received the first consignment of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Wednesday morning. Covaxin is the first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India by Bharat Biotech in...

New Delhi: The Centre said that 54.72 lakh of the entire stock of COVID-19 vaccine doses ordered so far have been received at designated national and state-level vaccine stores in states and Union Territories till Tuesday afternoon with the coronavirus inoculation drive set to begin...

Bangkok: Fiasco at its highest form. Organisers of the Thailand Open had earlier in the day ruled out shuttlers Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy of the event as both had tested positive for COVID-19. However, in the evening the organizers said that both Saina Nehwal...

San Diego: Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, have tested positive for COVID-19, in the first known instance of natural transmission to the species, officials said. Officials of the San Diego Zoo Global, which operates the San Diego Zoo and the...

New Delhi:  The BCCI had to intervene with its Australian counterparts after the Indian team complained about the hotel they were put in when they landed Tuesday at Brisbane. The fourth and the final Test of the series will be played at Brisbane beginning January...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government Tuesday withdrew restrictions on marriage processions which had been implemented earlier amid COVID-19 pandemic. The Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Tuesday released an official notification in this regard. The notification reads, “Taking into account the present situation, it has been decided by the...

Geneva: The World Health Organization's chief scientist warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year. At a media briefing Monday, Dr Soumya Swaminathan said it was critical countries and their populations maintain...

Bhubaneswar: The first consignment containing vials of Covishield vaccine, Serum Institute of India’s COVID-19 vaccine, will reach Odisha Tuesday as the first consignment for the same has already been dispatched from Pune. While the consignment of the vaccine was dispatched from Pune to several places...