Coronavirus

Cuttack: Despite the shutdown bringing all activities to a halt, members of a Cuttack based NGO came together in the most extraordinary way and conducted sanitation drives in various areas of the city Saturday in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impending monsoon season...

Bhubaneswar: The Health and Family Welfare department said Saturday that 120 persons who had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 120 people, 33 are from Ganjam, 18 from Gajapati, 13 from SOnepur, 12 from Balasore, 8 each...

Hyderabad: A legislator of Telangana's ruling party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has tested positive for Covid-19 while Finance Minister T Harish Rao has gone into self-quarantine after his personal assistant was found infected by the virus. The legislator, who represents a constituency in the united...

Bhubaneswar: Three more COVID-19 cases were detected in Bhubaneswar Saturday, informed the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Among the three fresh cases, one is a 27-year-old man from Bhimpur area. He had a travel history to New Delhi. The second patient is a 36-year-old man from...

Bangalore: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police office of the city was sealed until Sunday after a suspect tested positive for COVID-19, an official said Saturday. The office was sealed Friday for sanitization. "CCB office has been sealed until Sunday following an Ola cheating case...

Chhatrapur: The SDPO of Chhatrapur and an IIC posted under Ganjam police tested positive for COVID-19, Saturday. Ganjam SP Brijesh Kumar Rai, Saturday morning tweeted, “In the line of duty our two covid warriors SDPO Chatrapur & IIC Chatrapur tested covid positive.We wish speedy recovery...

London: In a significant find, a new study has said that the novel coronavirus behind Covid-19 may actually trigger onset of diabetes in healthy people, apart from causing severe complications of pre-existing diabetes. According to the researchers from King's College London, given the short period...

Beijing: Several markets in Beijing were shut down after six new domestically-transmitted coronavirus cases were reported, taking the tally to nine in the Chinese capital in the last three days, while 12 new infections were registered in other parts of China. China's National Health Commission,...

Lucknow: More than 500 post offices in Uttar Pradesh will now sell hand sanitizers. Chief Postmaster General of UP, Kaushalendra Kumar Sinha, said the postal department had signed an MoU with Meghdoot Gramodyog Sewa Sansthan, a cooperative that manufactures an array of products, including hand...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday registered the biggest single-day spike of 225 COVID-19 cases, taking the total in the state to 3,723. Out of the 225 new cases, 196 were reported from quarantine centres and 29 were local contacts. Cuttack registered the highest number of cases with...