Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: As many as 281 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Tuesday. While 89 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 192 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 315 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Houston: COVID-19 patients infected with the novel coronavirus for a second time might experience more severe symptoms. This is according to a study which is the first to confirm a case of re-infection with the virus in the US. The study has been published in...

Kolkata: The health condition of veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee continued to be ‘critical’ Tuesday.  Doctors attending to Soumitra Chatterjee at the hospital said they are planning to put him on invasive ventilation. The actor was admitted to the hospital October 6 here after he tested...

New Delhi: A vaccine against coronavirus is expected to be available in India by early next year. There could also be vaccines from more than one source, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan informed Tuesday. “We're expecting that early next year, we should have vaccine...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 2,275 new cases of coronavirus infection in the state in last 24 hours, state I&PR Department said in a tweet Tuesday. Out of the new positive cases, 1,318 persons were in quarantine while the remaining contracted the disease after coming in contact...

New Delhi: India's tally Tuesday mounted to 71,75,880 cases with a spike of 55,342 coronavirus cases, the lowest since August. India recorded around 55,000 cases on July 31 (55,078), August 4 (52,050) and August 18 (55,079). India is showing a trend of declining average daily...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 37.7 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,078,860, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 37,738,569 and the fatalities increased to 1,078,868,...

New Delhi: After Pakistan, China too is creating a dispute at the border with India as if it was part of a ‘mission’. This statement was made Monday by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. It was a direct criticism of the two countries together for creating...

Kolkata: The COVID-19 tally in West Bengal rose to 2,98,389 after 3,583 people tested positive for the disease Monday. Sixty more fatalities pushed the toll in the state to 5,682 said a health department bulletin. It also said that 3,155 people recovered from the disease...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 2,577 patients have recovered from COVID-19 infection in Odisha in the last 24 hours, the Health and Family Welfare department said in a tweet Monday evening. Earlier in the day, the state reported 2,423 new cases of coronavirus infections. So the...