Coronavirus

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level virtual meeting with chief ministers and health ministers of seven high-burden states Wednesday to review the COVID-19 situation. These states are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Punjab, an official statement...

Bhubaneswar: Mother’s milk is the best medicine to treat coronavirus infected children. Senior pediatric Dr Arabinda Mohanty claimed this at a press conference organised by the state government. While pointing out the intrinsic value of mother’s milk, Mohanty said that mother’s milk is the only...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Tuesday registered 4,189 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 1,88,311. Out of the  4,189 new cases, 2,453 were reported from quarantine centres while 1,736 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: Angul reported 107 new cases, Balasore 150, Bargarh...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 infection tally crossed 55 lakh Tuesday, while a record 1,01,468 patients recovered in a day, taking their number to 44,97,867 and pushing the recovery rate to 80.86 per cent, the Union health ministry data showed. The coronavirus caseload in the country surged...

Ganjam: The district of Ganjam gained notoriety a few months back for two reasons. One was due to the number of migrant workers returning to the district, the second one was for it emerging as a hotspot for COVID-19; an induced effect. However, the district...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 31.2 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 963,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday, total number of cases stood at 31,201,975 and the fatalities rose to 963,068, the University's...

New Delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) questioned Monday actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s talent manager Jaya Saha and celebrity manager Shruti Modi. They were quizzed for more than five hours in a drugs related case. Jaya Saha was questioned for over alleged chats related to...

Pune: The phase-III human clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine began at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital here Monday.  The vaccine is being developed by Oxford University and will be manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), said a senior hospital official. The vaccine...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered Monday the recovery of 3,704 COVID-19 patients from different parts of the state. All of them have been discharged from the respective COVID-19 treatment facilities. The recovery rate has been impressive keeping in mind the increasing number of new COVID-19 infections. More...

  Toronto: A drug used to treat deadly coronavirus infections in cats could potentially be an effective treatment against SARS-CoV-2. It is the SARS-CoV-2 virus which is behind the global coronavirus pandemic. This information is according to a study published in the journal ‘Nature Communications’....