Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The number of recoveries continued to surpass the cases of new infections in Odisha as 913 persons have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department said in a tweet Monday evening. All the recovered patients have...

Bankura (West Bengal): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday described Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent visit to a tribal household here for lunch as ‘show off’. Mamata Banerjee claimed that the food items served to the BJP leader were cooked at five-star hotels....

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government Monday made it mandatory for those seeking to enter the state from Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa to carry RT-PCR negative reports. For those flying in, the RT-PCR sample collection should have been done within 72 hours of scheduled time of...

London: Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca said Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90 per cent effective without any serious side effects. AstraZeneca thus became another company to give the world some hope in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 vaccine, being...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Monday registered 668 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,14,629. Out of the new 668 cases, 385 were reported from quarantine centres while 283 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1330749465263702016 The total number of active cases in...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 58.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.38 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update Monday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the...

New Delhi/Riyadh: Leaders of the G20, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asserted Sunday that they will spare no effort to ensure affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for all. The leaders also pledged to use all possible policy tools to protect...

New Delhi:  If you experience true loss of smell and taste along with gastric trouble (read diarrhoea) as COVID-19 symptoms begin to appear, have heart as this generally means a good prognosis and no severe respiratory attack that normally sets in in the second week...

Moscow: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 will cost governments much lower than that of Pizer's and Moderna's, the official Twitter handle of the world's first registered vaccine against the pandemic said Sunday. "Translating pharma lingo: the announced price of Pfizer of $19.50 and Moderna...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Sunday said that 905 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 905 persons, 92 are from Sundergarh, 60 from Keonjhar, 59 from Cuttack, 49 from Mayurbhanj, 48 from Khordha, 43 from Jagatsinghpur...