Coronavirus

U.S. public health officials and Pfizer Inc said a COVID-19 vaccine could be ready for distribution as soon as late October, just ahead of the November election in which the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be a major factor among voters deciding whether President Donald...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 3,267 new positive cases Friday taking the total number of infected persons to 1,16,678 in the state. Among the new infections 1,961 persons were in quarantine while the remaining 1,306 persons who tested positive for COVID-19 were local contacts. Currently the total...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally went past 39 lakh Friday with 83,341 fresh cases reported in a span of 24 hours. The number of recoveries crossed the 30-lakh mark, pushing the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in India to 77.15 per cent, according to the Union...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 26.2 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 867,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Friday morning, the total number of cases stood at 26,208,690 and the fatalities rose to...

Los Angeles: Daniel Craig’s James Bond is back for one last mission with No Time To Die. The film dropped its final trailer Thursday. No Time To Die is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga of True Detective fame. It is Daniel Craig’s final outing in...

Cuttack: As many as 237 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Thursday. While 81 of them were home quarantine cases, 54 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 102 were local contact ones....

Kolkata: Senior officials of the Metro Railway and West Bengal government met Thursday to discuss the modalities of putting in place social distancing norms and crowd management for resumption of services. Describing the meeting as ‘very good’, Metro Railway spokesperson Indrani Banerjee said another round...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 580 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Thursday. While 221 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 359 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 316 persons who earlier tested positive for the disease...

New Delhi: Three senior male wrestlers, including World Championship silver-medallist Deepak Punia, have tested positive for COVID-19. This information was given Thursday by the Sports Authority of India (SAI).  Besides the Olympic-bound Punia (86kg), the two other wrestlers who have tested COVID-19 positive are Navin...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 3,278 persons who had been infected by the COVID-19 virus recovered Thursday in different parts of Odisha. All of them were discharged from their respective treatment facilities during the day. Like always, the recovery rate continued to be high in the...