Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Khurda district Saturday reported 762 fresh COVID-19 cases. With the fresh detection, the district’s tally has been pushed to 15,462. As of now, 9,362 patients in the district have so far been discharged from COVID-19 hospitals after their recovery from the pandemic disease.  At...

Chennai: Severely damaged lungs of a 48-year-old coronavirus positive male patient were successfully replaced by doctors at a Chennai hospital who carried out a critical bilateral lung transplant, the private hospital said. This is Asia's first known lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient and the...

Bhadrak: Bhadrak sub-collector Pitambar Samal and 75 others tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday. Informing about the sub-collector’s diagnosis, district collector Gyana Ranjan Dash said that additional sub-collector Manorama Bhuyan has been given the charge of sub-collector till September 15. What has continuously been a cause...

New York: New research suggests that children can shed SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, even if they never develop symptoms or for long after symptoms have cleared. The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, provides important insight on the role children might play...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday registered 3,252 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 97,920. 14 more fatalities in the state pushed the death toll in the state to 470. Out of the 3,252 new cases, 1,987 were reported from quarantine centres while...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally raced past 34 lakh with a single-day spike of 76,472 cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 26,48,998, pushing the recovery rate to 76.47 per cent Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of COVID-19 cases rose...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 24.6 million, while the deaths have increased to over 835,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 24,646,610 and the fatalities rose to 835,730, the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Friday said that 2,503 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 2,503 persons, 369 are from Khordha, 281 from Cuttack, 204 from Ganjam, 180 from Rayagada, 149 from Sambalpur, 135 from Nayagarh,...

Chennai: Congress MP from Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari H. Vasanthakumar died here on Friday evening due to Covid-19, officials said. He was 70. Vasanthakumar, who was also the promoter of Vasanth & Co consumer durable retail chain, was admitted in Apollo Hospital here sometime back after...

New Delhi: Asian Games gold medal-winning woman wrestler Vinesh Phogat has tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus. She was tested by the Indian government as per the protocol as she was to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's top sports accolade, here Saturday. "My...