Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: A total of 607 patients have recovered Monday from COVID-19 in Odisha, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department said in a tweet. All the recovered persons have been discharged from their respective treatment centres,” the department added.  The total number of people in...

Jakarta: Indonesian police early Monday fatally shot six followers of a firebrand cleric. The firebrand cleric identified as Rizieq Shihab has returned here last month from a three-year exile in Saudi Arabia. Rizieq Shihab decided to return after criminal charges against him were dropped, officials...

Mumbai: Varun Dhawan has recently tested positive for coronavirus. The actor shared a post on his Instagram profile Monday morning after being hit by the COVID-19 virus. Varun Dhawanwas busy with the promotions of Coolie No 1. Then he had begun shooting for Jug Jugg...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha's COVID-19 tally mounted to 3,21,564 Monday, after 368 fresh cases were reported, while seven more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,778, a health department official said. The new infections were reported from 26 of the state's 30 districts. Khurda district, comprising state...

New Delhi: India's coronavirus infections rose to 96.77 lakh, while the active caseload fell below 4 lakh and the recoveries surged to 91.39 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Monday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 96,77,203 with 32,981 new infections being reported in a day,...

Washington: President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump's inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the US. The 76-year-old former New York mayor has traveled extensively...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has crossed the 67 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.53 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update  Monday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...

Researchers have now found that people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases are at a greater risk of dying at a younger age amid the COVID-19 pandemic. For the study, published in the journal Rheumatology, the research team looked at the electronic health records of 170,000...

London: The first 50 National Health Service (NHS) hospitals are gearing up for what the United Kingdom (UK) government has described as the ‘biggest immunisation programme in history’. The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 have already arrived at ‘secure locations’ in the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sunday registered 393 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,21,196. Out of the 393 new cases, 229 were reported from quarantine centres while 164 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: The total number of active cases in the state...