Coronavirus

Pune: Vaccine maker ‘Serum Institute of India’ (SII) is hoping to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the year-end. The vaccine maker said it is focusing on a ‘good and safe’ product and is not in a ‘rush’. This information was provided Tuesday by the company’s...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 10,000-mark Tuesday. It prompted Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to direct officials to include coronavirus management under the ‘Mo Sarkar’ (my government) programme to get feedback from patients and frontline workers. Naveen Patnaik issued the direction while reviewing the COVID-19...

Kolkata: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become one of the best finishers in the game. However, on his 39th birthday, former India captain Sourav Ganguly had a different opinion to offer. Sourav Ganguly said Mahendra Singh Dhoni would have been even more lethal if he batted...

Chhatrapur: Three more patients succumbed to COVID-19 in Ganjam district Tuesday. The patients, aged 70, 60 and 53 years, died while undergoing treatment in the COVID hospital here. Both the 70 and 60-year-old male COVID-19 patients, who succumbed to the virus today, were suffering from...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Tuesday said that 217 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 217 persons, 96 are from Ganjam, 18 from Khurdha, 16 from Balasore, 15 from Mayurbhanj, 13 from Bargarh, 12 from Keonjhar,...

Chhatrapur: The Ganjam district administration Tuesday declared a four-day-long shutdown in some of the urban areas in the district. The district administration will start door-to-door health surveillance of the residents from Wednesday. The shutdown will be enforced from Wednesday. The administration will declare the names...

Bargarh: The Urban primary health centre (UPHC) at Hatapada and another private clinic at Tora area in this town have been sealed for 72 hours starting Tuesday after COVID infection was detected in these healthcare centres. Chief district medical officer (CDMO) Bibhuti Bhushan Meher informed...

Cuttack: Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Tuesday said that five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. Among them, three are home quarantined cases, one is institutional quarantine case and the rest one has contracted the virus locally, CMC...

Bhubaneswar:  Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday said that 29 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While 14 of them are home quarantine cases, another 14 are local contact ones. The remaining patient is an employee of a...

Nabarangpur: Nabarangpur police Tuesday caught a COVID-19 patient who had escaped from the COVID-19 hospital here after scaling the hospital’s boundary wall. He was again put at the COVID-19 hospital and his treatment is going on, district collector Ajit Kumar Mishra said Tuesday. The infected...