Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Wednesday said that 4,052 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. https://www.orissapost.com/tag/coronavirus/ Out of the 4,052 persons, 716 from Khordha, 378 from Cuttack, 182 from Sundargarh, 181 from Puri, 164 from Jagatsinghpur, 152 from Jajpur,...

New York: Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine studies so far. The vaccine will be...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 301 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Wednesday. While 83 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 218 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 392 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Shimla: A 54-year-old woman Covid-19 patient allegedly committed suicide in the state-run hospital in the Himachal Pradesh capital Wednesday, the police said. She had tested positive September 18 and was undergoing treatment in the Dayal Upadhyay Hospital. She belonged to Chopal in Shimla district. Deputy...

Hyderabad: Leading vaccine maker Bharat Biotech Wednesday announced a licensing agreement with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single dose intranasal vaccine for COVID-19. The Hyderabad-based company owns the rights to distribute the vaccine in all markets except USA,...

London: Most people who are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19, are not asymptomatic throughout the course of infection, a review of studies carried early in the pandemic suggests. While some people who contract the novel coronavirus never experience any symptoms, there remains...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Wednesday registered 4,237 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 1,92,548. Out of the 4,237 new cases, 2,485 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,752 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: Angul reported 110 new cases, Balasore 161, Bargarh...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has hit out at China for not stopping the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives globally, as he yet again used the term ‘China virus’ and urged his supporters not to call it coronavirus, saying the...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload went past 56 lakh with 83,347 infections being reported in a day, while over 45 lakh people have recovered from the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Wednesday. The national recovery rate stands at 81.25 per cent. The coronavirus caseload...

New York: US Covid-19 deaths surpassed 200,000 Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the national caseload topping 6.8 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 200,005, according to the CSSE, Xinhua news...