Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: After the enforcement of lockdown in four districts of Odisha, the district administration of Gajapati Sunday followed suit and announced a lockdown in COVID-19 hotspot areas of the district. This comes after the district reported a total of 703 confirmed cases of the viral...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday launched yet another attack on the BJP, alleging that the ruling party has ‘institutionalised lies’ for which ‘India will have to pay the price’. "The BJP has institutionalised lies -- (on) Covid-19 by restricting testing and misreporting deaths;...

Cuttack: As many as 496 people have been booked in Cuttack city under Cuttack Municipal Corporation within last 24 hours for various COVID-19 lockdown violations, police said. Out of the 496, 337 were booked for violating social distancing norms while 159 were booked for not wearing...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 736 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 17,437, official data suggested Sunday. According to Department of Information and Public Relations (I&PR) of the state government, out of...

New Delhi: India saw a record single- day jump of 38,902 COVID-19 cases pushing its tally to 10,77,618 Sunday, while the total number of recoveries increased to 6,77,422, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to the disease rose to 26,816 with new 543 fatalities even as 23,672 patients have recuperated...

Researchers have found that approximately 5 per cent of people with COVID-19 progress to a severe or critical form, including development of severe pneumonia which leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ARDS is a type of respiratory failure characterised by rapid onset of widespread...

Washington:  Johns Hopkins University says the global death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 600,000. The university's tally as of Saturday night says the United States tops the list with 140,103 deaths. It is followed by 78,772 fatalities in Brazil and 45,358 in the United Kingdom....

New Delhi: In a major development, AIIMS Delhi will begin human trials of India's first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, from next week on 100 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 55. The volunteers will be kept under observation for a period of nearly 150 days....

Tehran: Iran's president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak's beginning, as he urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health...

London:  Scientists have claimed that there are six distinct 'types' of COVID-19, each distinguished by a particular cluster of symptoms in patients, findings, if validated, can help physicians better diagnose and monitor those infected with the novel coronavirus. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, published in the...