Coronavirus

New Delhi: With the COVID-19 pandemic striking hard and spreading rapidly in India, health experts have urged people to continue following social distancing norms even in the unlock phases and refrain from willfully exposing oneself to the virus in a bid to achieve herd immunity....

Khuntuni: The news of a dead man testing positive for COVID-19 scared family members, relatives, friends and neighbours as they left the body unattended for over three hours. This unusual turn of event was reported from a village under Khuntuni police limits in Cuttack district...

Bhubaneswar: BJD MLA Prabhu Jani from Laxmipur in Koraput district Saturday tested positive for COVID-19. The legislator has requested people who came in contact with him to get themselves tested for the virus. Jani’s report came out to be positive for coronavirus infection Saturday and...

New Delhi: As the focus shifts to India and its rising number of COVID-19 cases, a new book suggests ways to boost immunity and overcome fear in the fight against the deadly virus. 'Save your family and self from viruses' by Shiv Nandan says people...

Houston:  An inflammatory syndrome in children, believed to be linked to COVID-19, could damage their heart to such an extent that some kids may need lifelong monitoring and interventions, according to a review of studies. The research, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, assessed more than...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 3,810 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 1,24,031, official data suggested Sunday. According to Department of Information and Public Relations (I&PR) of the state government, out of...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people being infected in a day, while 31,80,865 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 77.32 per cent Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to...

Cairo: Iran and Russia will cooperate to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in the Islamic republic as COVID-19 cases in Iran surged to 384,666 on Saturday. Meanwhile, an Iraqi health official warned that the citizens should not play down the seriousness of the coronavirus as 4,644...

Cuttack: As many as 184 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Saturday. While 57 of them were home quarantine cases, 50 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 77 were local contact ones....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Saturday said that 3,443 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 3,443 persons, 951 are from Khordha, 251 from Cuttack, 213 from Mayurbhanj, 164 from Bhadrak, 161 from Dhenkanal, 154 from Rayagada,...