Coronavirus

New Delhi:  India's COVID-19 tally sprinted past the 30-lakh mark, just 16 days after it crossed 20 lakh, while 22,80,566 people have recuperated in the country so far pushing the recovery rate to 74.90 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data Sunday. With...

Bhubaneswar: Observing an exponential increase in COVID cases here, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Saturday, stated that the city has now entered ‘critical’ phase. It projected that the state capital will have 5,000 active cases by mid-September. Addressing a press conference here, BMC Commissioner, Prem Chandra...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 23 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 803,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,130,345 and the fatalities rose to...

Ghaziabad: India has the ‘best’ COVID-19 recovery rate of about 75 per cent, which is improving every day, and the ‘lowest’ mortality rate of 1.87 per cent in the world, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Saturday. After inaugurating a 10-bed makeshift hospital of the...

New Delhi:  India has crossed a significant milestone of testing over 10 lakh samples for COVID-19 in a day, with more than 3.44 crore such tests conducted so far, while the caseload in the country is nearing the 30 lakh-mark. As has been reported from...

New York:  The world hit a grim coronavirus milestone Saturday with 800,000 confirmed deaths and close to 23 million confirmed cases. That's according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Governments have been attempting to balance public health with economic health. Officials believe the...

Bhubaneswar: India’s first target should be to reach the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics. Then India can aspire to win a medal,” said former India players Ashok Kumar and Gurbux Singh. They were speaking in a panel discussion organised by ‘Signature 24 Productions’ in association...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Saturday said that 1,773 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,773 persons, 254 are from Khurdha, 216 from Ganjam, 147 from Cuttack, 125 from Sambalpur, 92 from Kandhamal, 87 from Jajpur,...

Cuttack: As many as 127 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Saturday. While 33 of them were home quarantine cases, 47 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 47 were local contact ones....

Bhubaneswar: As many as 295 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Saturday. While 153 of them were reported from quarantine centres, remaining 142 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 158 persons who earlier tested positive...