Coronavirus

Puri: The operation theatre (OT) of Puri district headquarters hospital (DHH) was sealed Saturday. Acting on the order of the chief district medical officer (CDMO), the DHH authorities have sealed the OT of gynaecology department after a doctor, a staff nurse and an ANM tested...

Cuttack: A coronavirus infected woman and her husband fled away with the body of their one-month old coronavirus infected infant from Sishu Bhawan here Friday afternoon. After receiving a complaint from the hospital authorities in this regard, Lalbag police have started an investigation into the...

Berhampur: In yet another case of medical negligence in Ganjam district, a patient died Friday allegedly due to the hospital staff not attending the patient on the pretext of unavailability of PPE kits. Pankaj Behera of Rajiv Nagar area in Berhampur town had been suffering...

Dhenkanal: Dhenkanal district Saturday reported 92 COVID-19 cases with Gandia block alone registering a single-day spike of 84 cases. Similarly, ward No-11 under Bhuban notified area council (NAC) limits witnessed three, Surapratappur two, Derasingh area under Sadar block one, Balyamba one and Kunjakanta under Dhenkanal...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally reached 16,95,988 Saturday with a record single-day increase of 57,118 cases, while the recoveries surged to 10,94,374, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 36,511 with 764 people succumbing to the disease...

Bhubaneswar; Odisha Saturday reported the biggest single-day spike of 1,602 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 33,479 while the death toll rose to 187 with 10 more fatalities. The deaths were reported from Ganjam, Khurda, Gajapati and Sundergarh districts. Ganjam...

Pune: Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol has alleged that at least 400 suspected COVID-19 deaths have gone unaccounted for in the city in July. Mohol said he raised the issue during his meeting with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Thursday, when the latter was in the city...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia announced that pilgrims have been performing the Haj rituals safely and that no COVID-19 or any other public health-related cases have been reported so far. Health Ministry spokesperson Mohammed Abdulaali told a press briefing on Friday that health services would continue all...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 17.5 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 678,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 17,516,264 and the fatalities rose to 678,226,...

Amravati (Maharashtra): A technician with a government hospital lab, Alpesh Deshmukh, who was arrested for molestation and rape after he took a vaginal swab from a woman for conducting a Covid-19 test, has been sent to judicial custody, officials said here on Friday. "The accused...