Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Thursday said that 168 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 168 persons, 39 are from Ganjam, 23 from Khurdha, 23 from Gajapati, 19 from Puri, 13 from Bargarh, eight from Sundargarh,...

New Delhi: A central team, led by Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, will visit Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana. They will be visiting the three states between June 26 and 29. They will coordinate with state officials in strengthening COVID-19 management efforts in...

Cuttack: With five new positive cases reported in Cuttack district Thursday, the total number of persons who have tested positive for the virus in the district touched 510. The number of active cases in the district has now reached 101. The district has also reported...

Bhubaneswar: Prisons in Odisha can soon turn into coronavirus hotspots unless proper precautionary measures are taken. However, it seems that the Odisha government and the authorities of various prisons in the state are unaware about how things stand. In short prisons are ticking coronavirus time...

Mumbai: Millions of people over the world are losing their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crises caused by it. One of the many victims of the deadly disease has been Balveer Chand, a lookalike of Sachin Tendulkar who not only lost...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday reported 210 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 5,962. Out of the 210 new cases, 174 were reported from quarantine centres while 36 are local contacts. Khurda district report 47 new cases, Keonjhar 5, Deogarh 1, Nawarangapur...

New Delhi: The highest-ever single-day surge of 16,922 COVID-19 cases pushed India's total tally to 4,73,105 Thursday whereas the death toll climbed to 14,894 with 418 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry. With this, India has registered over 14,000 cases for the sixth day in a...

Silchar (Assam): Sarada Singha, a 45-year-old chief performer of her Kolkata based circus company, had everything going right for her until the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent nationwide lockdown forced her to become a fish vendor to manage her two-square-meal for her family. The corona...

Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has topped 9.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 482,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. By Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 9,405,800, while the fatalities increased to 482,128, the...

London: Volunteers have begun being immunised with a new UK coronavirus vaccine. About 300 people will have the vaccine over the coming weeks, as part of a trial led by Robin Shattock and his colleagues, at Imperial College London. Tests in animals suggest the vaccine...