Coronavirus

Beijing: China is usually known to be covert in most of its dealings. People still doubt Chinese figures of approximately 4,600 people dead due to the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic first started at Wuhan City in Hubei province of China. Initially China kept quiet about...

Titilagarh: In a heart wrenching incident, a migrant woman passenger, on her way back home in Chhattisgarh district by the Kazipet-Bolangir Shramik Special train, delivered a baby girl inside the train at Titlagarh station in Bolangir district Sunday. Sources said, Hemakanti Biswakarma had boarded the...

Bhubaneswar:  Odisha government Sunday relaxed lockdown guidelines and allowed intra-state movement of passenger trains and commercial vehicles including buses and taxis. Besides, the government has made 14-day quarantine mandatory for people coming through flights and trains from outside the state, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Sunday said it was wrong to impose the lockdown suddenly and now it cannot be lifted all at once. Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra, Thackeray also said there was a need to be extra cautious...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Sunday said that 53 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered. Out of the 53 recoveries in the state, 30 are from Ganjam, 18 from Jajpur, three from Khurda and the remaining two are from Keonjhar,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded as many as 67 COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours taking the state's tally to 1,336, a health department official said Sunday. Of the 67 new patients, 16 cases were detected in Puri out of which 15 were in quarantine centres. While...

Gangtok: The Himalayan state of Sikkim reported its first coronavirus case when a 25-year-old student who returned from Delhi tested positive, a senior official said Sunday. Sikkim Health Secretary Pempa T. Bhutia said that the swab sample of the student was sent to North Bengal...

New Delhi: India's iconic brand, Amul has been instrumental in ensuring uninterrupted supply of milk and milk products across the country during the Covid-19 lockdown in difficult times. In an interview, Dr. R S Sodhi, Managing Director, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) says that...

Bolangir: A woman was found dead aboard a Shramik Special train in Bolangir district Sunday, GRP officials said. The deceased has been identified as Radha Khara (20), a resident of Baipariguda village in Koraput district. According to sources, the train was coming from Visakhapatnam to...

London: The English Premier League confirmed that two more positive cases of COVID-19 were tested in the second round of testing. The Premier League said that 996 players and club staff were tested for COVID-19 on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. "Of these, two have tested...