Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar:  Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Saturday said that 111 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While 62 of them are quarantine cases, 49 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 29 persons who were infected with the virus have...

Cuttack:  Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Saturday said that 35 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While six of them were reported from institutional quarantine centres, 26 were home quarantine cases and remaining three are local contact ones....

Daringbadi: With COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Kandhamal, the district administration Saturday announced shutdown restrictions till Tuesday, 28 July. Notably, the district administration had earlier clamped a seven-day closure on all banks in Kandhamal. Also read: Koraput admin to impose week long lockdown...

Malkangiri: Malkangiri reported its first COVID-19 death Saturday as a man from the Old Post Office area in the district headquarters breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Malkangiri COVID-19 hospital. The deceased also had respiratory problems. The doctors were treating him at the ICU....

New Delhi: Hand sanitisers have irrefutably become the most important thing in our lives to protect ourselves during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; the other things include masks and social distancing. It has been a long time since hand sanitisers became mandatory; while they are effective...

New York: A global team of scientists has identified 21 existing drugs that stop the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Notably, four of these compounds were found to work synergistically with remdesivir, a current standard-of-care treatment for COVID-19, said the study published...

IPL was originally scheduled to start March 29 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. BCCI tried its best to host the event in India but the rising number of coronavirus cases in the nation left the board with no option but to take...

Gope: At a time when scientists across the globe are working day in day out to contain the spread of COVID-19, a Class VII student of Gope block in Puri district has also done his bit. Md Saad Akhtar, a class VII student at DAV...

New Delhi: A wearable wrist tracker to detect COVID-19 symptoms at an early stage will be available in the market next month with its developer, a IIT Madras incubated start up, raising a funding of Rs 22 crore for the purpose. ‘Muse wearbales’, the start...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 13 lakh Saturday, just two days after it crossed the 12 lakh mark, while the recoveries mounted to 8,49,431, according to the Union Health Ministry. With 48,916 fresh cases, the country's coronavirus infection tally surged to 13,36,861, while...