Coronavirus

Cuttack: As many as 149 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Friday. While 43 of them were home quarantine cases, 35 of them were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 71 were local...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 324 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Friday. While 173 of them were reported from quarantine centres, remaining 151 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 108 persons who earlier tested positive...

New Delhi: Is India going the Russian way in producing the COVID-19 vaccine. Well if the director general of Indian Council of Medical Research is to be believed it may say. Balram Bhragava (DG, ICMR) had some important information to offer to a parliamentary panel...

Mumbai: Taapsee Pannu said Friday her upcoming film Rashmi Rocket will commence filming in November this year. Set in Kutch, Gujarat, Rashmi Rocket will star Taapsee Pannu in the title role of a gifted athlete. The actor and producer Ronnie Screwvala’s company RSVP took to social media...

Chhatrapur: Community celebration of Ganesh Puja has been banned in Ganjam district. Low-key celebrations at individual houses, however, have been allowed in Chhatrapur subdivision, special additional district magistrate (ADM) Parul Patwari said Friday. The ADM said the administration is working with a goal of reducing...

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 recovery rate soared past 74 per cent Friday. A total of 62,282 patients recovered and were discharged in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said. This incidentally is the highest single-day recovery in India. It took the total number recovered patients in...

Canberra: Papua New Guinea (PNG) prevented the arrival of a flight carrying Chinese workers here Friday. A Chinese company was bringing them here Friday. It said the Chinese mining company claimed to have immunised employees against COVID-19 in a vaccination trial, authorities informed Friday. The...

Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa ordered Friday an inquiry into the suicide of a government doctor. The government doctor was handling COVID-19 cases in a taluk. The doctor committed suicide allegedly due to severe work pressure. BS Yediyurappa also announced an ex-gratia of Rs...

Ganjam: Ganjam COVID-19 hospital Friday requested COVID recovered patients in the district to volunteer for plasma donations so that serious patients can benefit from it. That said, the hospital also put out a list of factors highlighting the patients that are not eligible for plasma...

G.Udayagiri: Kandhamal district administration has withdrawn containment zone tag from Laxmi Bazar and Baralini Sahi under G.Udayagiri block of the district. The containment zone order from Laxmi Bazar was lifted Thursday, while the restriction was lifted from Baralini Sahi Friday as no fresh cases were...