Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: As many as 329 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Saturday. While 110 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 219 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 341 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Bhubaneswar: The state government Saturday issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on how tablet favipiravir can be administered to COVID-19 patients who are in home isolation. In a letter, additional chief secretary PK Mohapatra directed all district collectors, municipal commissioners, CDMOs, PHOs and superintendents of...

Bargarh: A five-month-old child tested positive for COVID-19 in Bargarh district Saturday. COVID-19 caseload has been mounting in Bargrah district with about 100 fresh cases being reported for last couple of days. The district Saturday reported 98 fresh cases of COVID-19. With this, the district’s...

New Delhi: India continues to occupy the top global position with the maximum number of COVID-19 recoveries and accounts for 21 per cent of the recovered cases worldwide, while its share in the total cases stands at 18.6 per cent, the Union health ministry said...

London: In a major finding, researchers have discovered that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the SARS-CoV-2 virus behind the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the study, published in the journal Redox Biology, the substance concerned is...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday registered 3,053 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 2,29,387. Seventeen fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 892. Out of the 3,053 new cases, 1,804 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,249 are local contacts....

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 death toll crossed one lakh and the infection tally climbed to 64,73,544, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 54 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 83.84 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday. The total...

New Delhi: The Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy's Laboratories has applied to the Drugs Controller General of India for permission to conduct phase-3 human clinical trials of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V against COVID-19 in India, sources said. The Indian pharma giant has collaborated with the Russian...

Liverpool: Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for novel coronavirus, the Premier League club has confirmed. The forward, who started and scored in Monday's 3-1 victory over Arsenal, has ‘displayed minor symptoms’ of the virus but feels in good health overall. "Sadio Mane has...

Washington: US President Donald Trump, in a video shared on Twitter Friday evening, said he thinks that he is ‘doing very well’ and thanked people for their support after he was tested positive with for COVID-19 a day earlier. “I want to thank everybody for...