Coronavirus

Chhatrapur: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday praised a female teacher from Hinjili area in Ganjam district for defeating COVID-19 and rejoining duty immediately after recovery. Sangeeta Panigrahi, a teacher by profession, had been working at a quarantine centre. During her duty, her swab sample was...

Cuttack: As many as 19 new COVID-19 cases were detected in Cuttack city under Cuttack Municipality Corporation (CMC) area Thursday. Among the new cases, five cases were reported from institutional quarantine centres, one is a paid quarantine case and 13 cases were reported from home...

Cuttack: In a first in the state, doctors used plasma therapy to save the life of a COVID-19 patient at the dedicated Ashwini COVID Hospital in Cuttack, informed state government’s technical adviser on COVID-19 Jayant Panda, Thursday. The benefactor was a 48-year-old man who was...

Ganjam: The migration-prone Ganjam district in Odisha is close to registering 5000 COVID-19 positive cases. The COVID-19 hotspot district reported 246 new cases Thursday. The current COVID-19 cases in Ganjam districts stand at 1845. So far 2,971 people have recovered from the disease. The death toll...

Brasilia: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed that he has once again tested positive for the novel coronavirus, roughly a week after he contracted the virus. "We hope that in the next few days, they will give me a new test and, everything will be fine...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday reported 494 new cases, taking the total tally in the state to 15,392. Ganjam district reported two more deaths from COVID-19. The death toll across the state reached 79. Out of the 494 new cases, 322 were reported from quarantine centres while...

Beijing: China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s (22UAy.F) (BNTX.O) experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (600196.SS) (2196.HK) said Thursday. The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with...

Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 13.5 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 583,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 13,070,097, while the fatalities rose to...

Kolkata: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly Wednesday was forced to go into home quarantine after his elder brother and Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Joint Secretary Snehasish Ganguly tested positive for Covid-19. Snehasish has been admitted to the Belle Vue Clinic here after his Covid report...

Kolkata: Former England off-spinner Graeme Swann rated the Jasprit Bumrah-led Indian bowling team as tremendous. He said the Indian bowlers have the ability to bowl out any side cheaply. The cricketer-turned-commentator was in the West Indies in September last year. In the series the Indian...