Coronavirus

New York: Researchers in the US have discovered that an experimental cancer drug called AR-12 inhibits the COVID-19 virus from infecting cells and replicating. AR-12 has been studied extensively as both an anti-cancer and anti-viral drug and showed that it is effective against viruses including...

New York: Researchers have developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- infects a cell, information that could potentially speed the search for treatments against the disease. The tool is a fluorescent nanoparticle probe that uses the spike...

Cuttack: As many as 312 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Tuesday. While 111 of them were home quarantine cases, 59 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 142 were local contact ones....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered Tuesday the recovery of 3,834 new COVID-19 patients from different parts of the state. All the recovered COVID-19 patients have been discharged from their respective treatment centres. This information was given by Odisha government’s Health and Family Welfare Department in a couple...

New Delhi: ‘Codagenix’ said Tuesday that Serum Institute of India has started manufacturing the US biotech firm’s potential COVID-19 vaccine. Codagenix said it expects to begin early-stage human trial of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2020 in the UK. Serum Institute is the...

New Delhi: India has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 recoveries in the world. The Union Health Ministry said Tuesday that for the past four consecutive days the number of daily recovered cases surpassed the new infections reported per day. This information was given by...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 345 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Tuesday. While 101 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 244 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 412 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Mathura (Uttar Pradesh): In a shocking incident, a video clip of a Mathura doctor giving more than 15 of his own samples for conducting COVID-19 test for completing the sampling target, has gone viral on social media. The video that first came to light Sunday...

Berhampur: The COVID-19 enforcement team is showing no leniency while dealing with COVID guideline violators in Ganjam district. A liquor shop in Berhampur municipal area was found violating COVID guidelines. Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on the shop Tuesday. The...

Bhubaneswar: Two nonagenarian COVID-19 patients have been cured of the highly infectious disease in Odisha, bringing cheers to the medical fraternity in the eastern state. The two patients -- Satchidananda Mohanty and Dhirendranath Das -- both aged 91, were admitted to dedicated COVID-19 hospitals in...