Coronavirus

Chhatrapur: Ganjam SP Brijesh Kumar Roy lauded 12 coronavirus warriors Sunday for joining their duties immediately after recovering from the dreaded COVID-19 infection. The 12 coronavirus warriors are from Aska and Bhanjanagar police station limits. Roy tweeted, “Ganjam Police welcome back its 12 heroes of...

Bhubaneswar: Khurda district has emerged as a COVID-19 hotspot next only to Ganjam district. Bhubaneswar had reported its first coronavirus case, March 15. However, there was a lull for about two months when not a single positive case emerged from the state capital. However, since...

Bhubaneswar: A study conducted jointly by researchers at IIT-Bhubaneswar and the AIIMS here has shown that the spread of COVID-19 may pick up pace during peak monsoon and winter with a fall in the mercury. The rainfall, decrease in temperatures and cooling of the atmosphere...

Khurda: If you have recently visited Khurda municipality office and new bus stand, you must have noticed murals on the boundary wall of the municipality office and on both sides of the wall of the bus stand. And a selfie corner for youths would not...

New Delhi: Sonali, a transgender woman in her early 30s, was eking out a living by begging at traffic signals in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar before the government ordered people indoors to contain the spread of COVID-19 in late March. After struggling for months to...

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case fatality rate is ‘progressively falling’ and is currently at 2.49 per cent. The fatality rate is one of the lowest in the world, the Union Health Ministry said Sunday. The Health Ministry credited efficient clinical management of hospitalised cases for such a low fatality rate....

Mumbai: Actor Pratik Gandhi Sunday said he, along with actor-wife Bhamini Oza and brother Punit, has tested positive for COVID-19. The actor has featured in hit Gujarati movies such as ‘Bey Yaar’, ‘Wrong Side Raju’, ‘Love Ni Bhavai’ and has starred in Hindi projects, including...

New Delhi: While India is set to begin the trials of its indigenous coronavirus vaccine from this week, a top official from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has claimed that a vaccine cure for the deadly COVID-19 upon its development and marketing would reach usable...

Bargarh: The Bargarh district administration sealed Sunday the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for five days, after a doctor tested positive for COVID-19. The report of the doctor arrived here Sunday. CDMO Bibhuti Bhusan Meher said, “We have suspended all services of the hospital in order...

New Delhi: At least seven Indian pharma companies are working to develop a vaccine against coronavirus. They have joined global efforts to find a preventive to check the spread of the deadly virus. Coornavirus has already infected more than 14 million globally. Bharat Biotech, Serum...