Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department Saturday said that it has halted the practice of using biometrics for Aadhar authentication for PDS distribution in light of the COVID 19 pandemic. The plan is to reduce surface contacts from the same source to reduce...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday reported 591 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 16,701. The Health and Family Welfare Department reported three ore deaths due to COVID-19. https://twitter.com/HFWOdisha/status/1284354330141712384 Out of the 591 new cases, 394 were reported from quarantine centres while 197...

New Delhi: With 34,884 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, India's caseload surged to 10,38,716 while the death toll from the disease rose to 26,273 with 671 fatalities, the Union health ministry said. According to the ministry's data updated at 8 am Saturday,...

New Delhi: With a surge in COVID-19 cases in Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Odisha, the Union health ministry has asked these states to make renewed efforts to contain transmission of the virus and keep case fatality rate below one per cent. With these states...

West Bengal BJP president and Lok Sabha MP Dilip Ghosh is known for his unscientific temper. After claiming that Indian cows’ milk contains gold in November, 2019, Ghosh has now suggested cow urine as a traditional immunity booster. Ghosh has urged Indian women to force...

Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has surpassed the 14 million mark, while the deaths have topped to more than 601,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 14,049,207, while the fatalities rose...

Beijing: Researchers have found that prediabetes increases people's risk of heart disease and death, especially if they have a history of heart issues. Prediabetes is a "pre-diagnosis" of diabetes - when a person's blood sugar level is higher than normal, but not high enough to...

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech Friday announced that the Phase-I clinical trials of India's first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin began across the country July 15. "This is a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial on 375 volunteers in India," the company said in a brief statement. The...

Sambalpur: In its fight against coronavirus, Sambalpur district administration Friday announced a two-day long shutdown in the entire district starting July 18. “Though the spread of COVID-19 cases has been steady in Burla area under Sambalpur Municipal Corporation (SMC), there is an urgent need to...

Cuttack: Cuttack reported nine more COVID-19 cases in the city Friday. Among them, four cases are from institutional quarantine centres, two are home quarantine cases and the rest three have contracted the virus locally, CMC said on Twitter. Of the local contact cases, one is...