Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Thursday said that 1,641 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,641 persons, 365 are from Ganjam, 357 from Khurdha, 91 from Sundargarh, 86 from Jajpur, 65 from Gajapati, 63 from Cuttack,63...

Cuttack: As many as 150 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Thursday. While 36 of them were reported from institutional quarantine centres, 47 were home quarantine cases and the remaining 67 were local contact...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 319 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Thursday. While 172 of them were reported from quarantine centres, remaining 147 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 113 persons who earlier tested positive...

New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry has decided to charge higher aviation security fee (ASF) from domestic and international passengers from September 1. This information was given by senior government officials Thursday. The new impositions will make flying slightly costlier Civil Aviation Ministry officials stated....

Los Angeles: Breast milk is not likely to transmit COVID-19, according to a study. The study found that the novel coronavirus was unable to replicate and cause infection in the breastfed infants. The study was published Wednesday in the journal JAMA. It 64 samples of...

Berhampur: Health screening of COVID-19 recovered patients in Ganjam district has started from Thursday, Berhampur sub-divisional magistrate said in a tweet. The tweet also informed that the recovered patients are being motivated to donate their plasma so that lives of other infected persons can be...

New Delhi: India has conducted a record 9,18,470 COVID-19 tests in a day. With the new tests, the cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in India have reached 3.26 crore. The COVID-19 positivity rate has fallen below eight per cent, the Union...

New Delhi: India, which has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, has eight states, which have recorded over one lakh cases each, accounting for 77.87 per cent of its total tally. These states are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh,...

London: The World Health Organization's Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first country in the world to license a coronavirus vaccine when...

New Delhi: Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has tested positive for COVID-19. According to sources, he will undergo treatment at Medanta hospital in Gurugram. Shekhawat had been feeling unwell for some time following which he had undergone a Corona test. Shekhawat has appealed to all...