Coronavirus

Cuttack: As many as 11 members of a family residing in Manikghosh area in this city contracted the deadly virus at a marriage function they had attended. Sources said that a family residing in Manikghosh area had organised a marriage reception feast some days ago. ...

New Delhi: Twenty-one states and Union Territories (UTs), including Delhi, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, have a COVID-19 recovery rate higher than the national average of 60.77 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said Sunday. India’s COVID-19 case count mounted to 6.73 lakh and the death toll...

Chhatrapur: Considering the seriousness of the COVID-19 situation in Ganjam district, DGP Abhay deputed four DSPs and four platoons of force to the district. The DSPs are Himanshu Sekhar Behera, Tapan Kumar Mahananda, Gunanidhi Mallick and Ritesh Kumar Mohapatra and they have been given charges...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar reported 19 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours, taking the total number of patients in the capital city to 433, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a statement Sunday. Of the fresh cases, nine were reported from quarantine centres, eight were local...

Cuttack: Tension gripped Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (ARHCC) in Cuttack Saturday night after the hospital authorities started shifting 38 patients to a dedicated COVID-19 hospital after they tested positive for the deadly virus Saturday. A video that has since gone viral shows that COVID-19...

Cuttack: As many as 94 new COVID-19 cases were reported from Cuttack district in last 24 hours including 74 new cases only from CMC limits pushing the district’s tally to 813, state health department said Sunday. Also Read: CMC suspends entry of public into its...

Puri: In a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Puri, the district administration has restricted the entry of visitors from Sunday morning. Puri Collector Balwant Singh informed that the decision has been taken to restrict the movement of people within the town as...

Khurda: In a bid to prevent further spread of COVID-19 infection in Khurda subdivision, the district administration Sunday imposed Sec-144 at all Shiva shrines of the subdivision ahead of Hindu Shravan month and beginning of Bol Bom season. "Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed...

Bhubaneswar: As many as two officials of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) tested positive for COVID-19 Sunday. Both the officials work in the engineering department of BMC as engineers. A driver, who was found to be COVID-19 positive, is the driver of one of the officials....

Bhubaneswar: As many as 469 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 9,070, official data suggested Sunday. According to Department of Information and Public Relations (I&PR) of the state government, out of...