Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Saturday said that 388 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 388 persons, 187 are from Ganjam, 37 from Khurdha, 31 from Keonjhar, 27 from Jajpur, 26 from Cuttack, 18 from Nayagarh,...

Digapahandi: Ganjam district reported two COVID-19 deaths Saturday. One of deceased was a member of Biju Yuva Vahini. He was identified as M Sibram of Sanadanda Sahi of Digapahandi town. He had been suffering from fever for last few days and was on medication. As...

India’s drug regulator has approved Itolizumab, a drug used to cure skin ailment psoriasis for “restricted emergency use” to treat Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress, officials told PTI on Friday. Considering the unmet medical needs to treat Covid-19, Drugs Controller General...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said the novel coronavirus was yet to be brought under control ‘in most of the world’, while warning that it was actually ‘getting worse’. Speaking at a briefing Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: "The virus has upended...

Cuttack: As many as ten new COVID-19 cases were detected in Cuttack city Saturday. Among the new cases, four cases were reported from institutional quarantine centres, five were home quarantine cases and one contracted the virus locally. The institutional quarantine cases are all COVID warriors...

Bhubaneswar:  Bhubaneswar reported 38 fresh COVID-19 cases Saturday, taking the state capital’s tally to 640. Out of the 38 new cases, 26 were from quarantine centres and the rest 12 have contracted the virus locally, informed the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a tweet. The...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday spoke to MLAs of Nilagiri and Salepur over telephone and enquired about their health. He also wished for their speedy recovery. Nilagiri MLA Sukanta Kumar Nayak and Salepur MLA Prashant Behera are undergoing treatment for COVID-19. The CM also...

Sydney: Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have revealed that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made 147 million people unemployed, adding that the global consumption loss due to the Covid-19 amounts to an estimated $3.8 trillion. Beyond its health effects, the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns...

Bhubaneswar: The civic authority has started Sero Surveilance for COVID-19 here in the capital city Saturday. It will be of immense help to know the immunological status of the community and high risk groups. With technical support from RMRC (ICMR), Bhubaneswar, the surveillance is being...

Mumbai: The Indian economy has started showing signs of normalcy with ease in lockdown restrictions across the country, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said Saturday. He added that post containment of COVID-19, a very careful trajectory has to be followed in orderly unwinding of countercyclical regulatory...