Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Centre has given the green signal for cinemas to reopen in a new COVID-19 normal October 15 onwards. However, for cinemas to reopen rigorous dos and don’ts have to be followed. The theatre owners are getting ready to follow the rules. But...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 4,098 COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease and were discharged from their respective treatment facilities in various districts of Odisha. With the new recoveries, the total number of recovered patients in Odisha has gone up to 2,00,6400. The number of active...

Mumbai: Recovery in domestic air passenger traffic continued in September with a sequential growth about 37-39 per cent in passenger volume in the previous month over August. This information was given Monday by ratings agency ICRA.  The passenger volume, however, plunged around 60 per cent...

Cuttack: The officer-in-charge of Cuttack Municipal Corporation’s (CMC) COVID-19 control room became a victim of the virus Monday. He has been identified as Biswanath Lenka. Initially Lenka was working at the CMC as an officer in the Statistical Department. He was made in-charge of the...

Geneva: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday jointly to three people – Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice. They were honoured for the discovery of the 'Hepatitis C' virus. The medicine prize carries particular significance this year...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha in the last 24 hours registered 2,617 fresh COVID-19 cases, said the Information & Public Relations Department Monday. With the fresh number of cases the total number of infected patients in the state reached at 2,353,30. Out of the new cases, 1,521 were reported...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Sunday said that 4,108 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 4,108 persons, 721 are from Khordha, 492 from Cuttack, 212 from Jajpur, 186 from Anugul, 154 from Jharsaguda, 143 from Jagatsinghpur,...

New Delhi: The Centre estimates to receive and utilise 40-50 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine covering 20-25 crore people by July next year.  The Centre is also preparing a format for the states to submit by October-end their list of priority population group. As per...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 3,326 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 2,32,713, official data suggested Sunday. According to Department of Information and Public Relations (I&PR) of the state government, out of...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 34.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,031,500, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday, the total number of cases stood at 34,791,855 and the fatalities rose to 1,031,528, the University's...