Coronavirus

Kolkata: Some budget hotels in the metropolis have proposed to act as satellite centres for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients to meet the demand for beds in overburdened hospitals. At the same time this move will help them tide over dwindling footfalls in their properties due to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Tuesday said that a record 609 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 609 persons, 268 are from Ganjam, 135 from Sundargarh, 37 from Khurdha, 32 from Cuttack, 25 from Balasore, 23...

Chhatrapur: Amid worsening coronavirus crisis in Ganjam, the district administration has restricted entry of public into all government offices till July 31, collector Vijay Amruta Kulange said Tuesday. Kulange further added that all the public and private sector banks in the district will remain operational...

Chhatrapur: Amid rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Ganjam district, the district administration Tuesday started eight fever clinics in Berhampur city. The clinics are situated at Aska Road, Aaga Sahi, Baikunthanagar, Good shed Road, Khodasingi, Ambapua, Uttaramukhi and NST Road. The hospitals will be open...

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to simplify admission process of the differently-abled students in schools, the Odisha government has introduced an online admission system for them. This information was given by Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disability minister Ashok Chandra Panda Tuesday. A portal...

Melbourne: Scientists have discovered potential target points on the genome of the novel coronavirus, an advance which they claim may lead to the development of new treatments for the deadly disease. The researchers, including Ali Hosseini and Alex McLellan from the University of Otago in...

Thiruvananthapuram: A day after a court in Kerala's Kottayam issued a non-bailable warrant against Jalandhar's former Catholic bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually assaulting a nun between 2014 and 2016, for failing to appear before it, it was told that he has tested Covid positive...

Patna: More than 20 people, including four senior office-bearers of the Bihar BJP unit, have tested positive for COVID-19 at the party’s headquarters. This information was given by BJP’s Bihar unit chief, Sanjay Jaiswal here Tuesday. Reports in a section of the media here, however,...

New York: Researchers have discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralise SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. For the findings, published in the journal Science, the research team reviewed data on nearly 300 anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies that their labs...

Cuttack: Twenty seven new COVID-19 cases were detected Tuesday in this city under the Cuttack Municipal Corporation jurisdiction. Among the new cases, 20 cases were reported from institutional quarantine centres, four were home quarantine cases and three contracted the virus locally. The local cases were...