Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported highest 178 recoveries in a single day Sunday, state health and family welfare department said. The total number of recoveries now stands at 1,894. Of them, Khurda reported highest 39 patients being discharged from different COVID-19 hospitals. The following districts are Gajapati...

Chhatrapur: After identification of 15 fresh positive cases in Khallikot block, Sunday morning, the Ganjam district administration has declared 10 villages as containment zones. Similarly 22 villages have been declared as buffer zones in the block. The two villages come under two separate panchayats. Sources...

Jammu: As many as 366 stranded migrants left for Odisha on three special flights from Jammu Sunday, thanking the Naveen Patnaik government and the Jammu and Kashmir administration for making arrangements for their return, officials said here. The migrants, mostly labourers, were picked up in...

Bhubaneswar: Two doctors at Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) in Sundergarh have tested positive for coronavirus, raising the number of medicos who have contracted the infection in Odisha to five, an official said. The doctors, both engaged in COVID-19 duty, were among the 18 cases recorded...

Hyderabad: A 36-year-old journalist died of COVID-19 in Hyderabad Sunday, officials confirmed. The scribe from a Telugu television channel succumbed at Gandhi Hospital, where he was admitted four days ago after being tested positive for COVID-19. He is the first journalist in Telangana to have...

New Delhi: Ishwari Devi has named her daughter Karuna. Reena's son is Lockdown Yadav. The two babies share nothing in common, except the extraordinary situation they were born in: on-board Shramik Special trains during a devastating pandemic, that has a bearing on all aspects of...

Thane (Maharashtra): A 23-year old Thane engineer has made a first-of-its kind 'Internet-controlled' robot specifically to address the needs of hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. The gizmo, aptly called 'Coro-bot' independently dispenses food, water, beverages, medicines - and even some good advice - to Corona patients...

New Delhi: Delhi's borders with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana will open from Monday but hospitals, except those run by the Centre, here will only treat patients from the national capital, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced Sunday. While malls, restaurants and religious places will open in...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has ruled out the return to a strict shutdown to stem the spread of coronavirus, saying the ‘elitist’ idea would collapse the economy and increase poverty even as the COVID-19 cases in the country Sunday inched closer to the...

New Delhi: The Delhi Medical Association Sunday slammed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for warning and threatening the hospitals about the COVID-19 patients' admissions and tests. It also condemned the move to lodge FIR against private COVID facility, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi. In a...