Coronavirus

London: United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cautiously welcomed the promising results from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. However, Boris Johnson has warned people not to rely on this news as a solution as it is still ‘very, very early days’. Addressing a briefing...

Sydney: Cricket Australia (CA) announced Tuesday that up to 27,000 spectators will be allowed at the Adelaide Oval for the first ever day-night Test between India and Australia. The game begins December 17. CA said that half the capacity of Adelaide Oval will be opened...

Washington: As President-elect Joe Biden is gearing up for administering the US, a defiant Trump campaign has asserted that the 2020 US presidential election is far from over. Donald Trump has indicated that he will explore all possible options to obtain ‘an accurate and honest...

New York: Drug regulators in the US have given emergency use approval for Eli Lilly and Co's investigational monoclonal antibody therapy for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adult and pediatric patients. The treatment called, bamlanivimab, is authorised for patients with positive results of direct...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 987 new cases of coronavirus infections in the state in the last 24 hours. This information was given by the I&PR Department, Government of Odisha in a tweet Tuesday. Out of the new positive coronavirus cases, 572 persons were in quarantine while...

Bhubaneswar:  Odisha recorded a total of 1521 new COVID-19 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) Department, Government of Odisha said in a tweet Monday. All the recovered patients have been released from their respective treatment facilities. The total number...

Washington: Indian-American Vivek Murthy was named Monday one of the three co-chairs of the COVID-19 advisory board that will guide President-elect Joe Biden on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed over 236,000 lives in the United States (US). Dr Vivek Murthy is a...

New York: Pfizer has said that the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing has been 90 per cent effective in Phase 3 trial. The COVID-19 vaccine is being jointly developed by ‘Pfizer’ and ‘BioNTech’. Both companies said Monday that the vaccine was 90 percent effective in...

Mumbai: Actor Taapsee Pannu said Monday she has started filming her upcoming sports drama Rashmi Rocket. Set in Kutch, Gujarat, Rashmi Rocket stars Taapsee Pannu in the title role of a gifted athlete. The film is being directed by Akarsh Khurana, who helmed Irrfan Khan’s...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Monday registered 1,219 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,02,793. Out of the 1,219 new cases, 708 were reported from quarantine centres while 511 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1325672531810951168 The total number of active cases in...