Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: As many as 93 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Thursday. While 21 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 72 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 254 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered 1,617 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 2,87,099. Out of the 1,617 new cases,  941 were reported from quarantine centres while 676 are local contacts. https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1321688958519054336 The total number of active cases in the state now...

New Delhi: With a fresh spike of 49,881 coronavirus infections and 517 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally crossed 80 lakh-mark with the total number of cases at 80,40,203, the Union Ministry of Health stated Thursday. Out of the total Covid-19 cases, 6,03,687 are currently...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 44.4 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,173,270, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 44,400,318 and 1,173,270, respectively, the University's Center for...

The first set of COVID-19 vaccines that clear clinical trials for rollout to combat the deadly virus are likely to be imperfect and might not work equally for everyone, the chief of the UK government's Vaccine Taskforce has warned. Kate Bingham, Chair of the UK's...

London:  Drugmakers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline have agreed to provide 200 million doses of their potential COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX Facility, a collaboration designed to give countries around the world equal access to coronavirus vaccines.  The Sanofi-GSK vaccine candidate is in early stage trials, with...

London: A study of over 200 COVID-19 cases in a hospital in Spain found that about 80 per cent patients had vitamin D deficiency, scientists said Wednesday. However, the study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, did not find any relationship between...

Washington: An analysis of more than 80 studies reporting complications experienced by COVID-19 patients has revealed that about one-third of them have abnormalities in the frontal lobe of the brain, findings which shed light on the neurological symptoms of the disease. The review of studies,...

Researchers have revealed that coronaviruses are adept at imitating human immune proteins that have been implicated in severe COVID-19 disease. According to the study, published in the journal Cell Systems, many plants and animals use the art of mimicry to trick their prey or predators....

Washington:  Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have used a new mathematical method to understand airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus and found that protection from the spread of the virus increases almost proportionally with physical distancing. According to the study, published in the journal Physics...