Coronavirus

Kolkata: The start of India’s football season amid the COVID-19 pandemic has Sourav Ganguly excited. The BCCI boss believes a smooth ISL would go a long way in driving away the ‘fear’ of conducting big events across the nation. Sourav Ganguly is the co-owner of...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan expressed confidence Thursday that a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready in the next three-four months. He said the government has drawn up a meticulous priority plan with healthcare workers and those above 65 years on top of the...

London: The coronavirus vaccine developed by teams at the University of Oxford has shown some promising results also. The coronavirus vaccine has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69. It has also shown positive results for those over 70...

Washington: Pfizer and BioNTech could secure emergency US and European authorisation for their COVID-19 vaccine next month. This development comes after final trial results of the COVID-19 vaccine showed it had a 95 per cent success rate and no serious side effects. This information was...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered 868 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,11,788. Out of the 868 new cases, 499 were reported from quarantine centres while 369 are local contacts. https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1329303149564162049 The death toll in Odisha rose to 1592 with 17 new...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Wednesday said that 1,303 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,303 persons, 108 are from Cuttack, 103 from Angul, 101 from Mayurbhanj, 97 from Sundargarh, 96 from Khordha, 86 from Jharsuguda,...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 57 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Wednesday. While 17 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 40 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 60 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Chandigarh: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij Wednesday said the third phase of trial of Covaxin, a potential vaccine against COVID-19, will begin in the state November 20 and offered to be the first volunteer to get vaccinated. Covaxin is being developed indigenously by Bharat Biotech...

London: Researchers have once again claimed that widely-available mouthwashes have killed Coronavirus, responsible for the Covid-19 disease, within 30 seconds of exposure in laboratory conditions. The study this time from Cardiff University in the UK, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a...

Beijing: A Chinese vaccine candidate -- CoronaVac -- appears safe and induces an antibody response in healthy volunteers aged 18 to 59 years in an early-phase randomised clinical trial, say researchers. According to the study, published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, antibody responses...