Coronavirus

Digapahandi: She is the lone member in her family to tell the horrific tale of COVID-19 after the pandemic claimed the lives all her family members. Anuradha Panigrahi from Digapahandi area in Ganjam district recently returned home after winning the battle against coronavirus. But her...

Bhubaneswar: The regional centre of India Metrological Department (IMD) Wednesday issued a rainfall and thunderstorm warning for five districts of the state valid till 8:30am of July 22. In its afternoon bulletin, the Metrological Centre said: Light to moderate rain or thundershower very likely to...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar city Tuesday reported 21 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the city to 1252, said BMC. Among the fresh detected cases, 16 were reported from quarantine centres while five contracted the virus locally. At the same time, 49 patients have also...

Sambalpur: After a staff and a patient tested positive for COVID-19 in Rairakhol sub-divisional hospital in Sambalpur district Monday, the district administration suspended the Out Patient Department service for three days. Rairakhol Sub-Collector Dolamani Patel, Tuesday said, that we suspended OPD of the hospital in order...

London: The initial trial data for the COVID-19 vaccine which has been developed in a joint collaboration between Oxford University and AstraZeneca is ‘safe, well-tolerated and immunogenic’. This has been said by the editor of the United Kingdom-based medical journal, ‘The Lancet’. The editor of...

Chhatrapur: A 95-year-old man has managed to defeat COVID-19 as he was discharged from TATA COVID Hospital in Sitalapalli in Ganjam district July 18 after his two reports came out negative, health officials said. Udayanath Bisoyi, 95, was presented with flowers by doctors expressing their...

Beijing: A phase 2 trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate conducted in China has found that the vaccine is safe and induces an immune response, according to a new study published in the journal The Lancet. This comes barely 24 hours after Monday The Lancet...

Gajapati: The Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of Gajapati district passed away at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur, Tuesday. The ADM has been identified as Karunakar Raika. Sources said, due some illness he had been admitted to MKCG hospital before some days where he was...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Tuesday reported 647 new COVID-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s tally to 18,757. Of the fresh  cases, 431 cases were reported from quarantine centres and the rest 216 contracted the virus locally, informed Information and Public Relations Department...

Berhampur: People are taking help of police and the government officials for performing the last rites of their even non-COVID deceased family members as relatives and neighbours are staying away fearing infection in coronavirus affected Ganjam district, officials said Monday. The state government has allowed...