Coronavirus

Betnoti: Betnoti police recovered Friday the body of an Odia expat who allegedly committed suicide. His body was found hanging from a tree inside the premises of a quarantine centre in Anla panchayat under Betnoti Block in Mayurbhanj district. The deceased has been identified as...

New Delhi: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in South-East Asia, the WHO cautioned Friday countries in the region to take ‘evidence-informed action’. The WHO asserted countries should conduct careful assessment of the local epidemiology. Then only it should decide on the health and social...

Cuttack: With thousands of migrant workers facing difficulties to register themselves for homecoming amid COVD-19 outbreak, the Orissa High Court has said that Aadhaar card is not mandatory for this registration. Hearing a PIL filed by Mahendra Kumar Parida Thursday, a division bench of Chief...

New Delhi: India has reported the most number of coronavirus cases amongst the 11 member nations of the South-East Asia Region, data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Friday. According to the data, the region has reported at least 122,247 confirmed COVID-19...

New Delhi: Elimination of low-ventilation change rooms, disinfection of training equipment after every use, a bar on sparring for now, and usage of gyms in shifts – these are some of the measures to tackle the COVID-19 threat that the Sports Authority of India is...

London: England’s cricketers will be handed a box of balls each only for their individual use with one condition. The cricketers can’t apply saliva on the balls when they resume training next week. The England cricketers will start preparing for the scheduled Test series against...

New Delhi: Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar have developed an interactive COVID-19 dashboard. They said it can help administrators, hospitals and the public in planning optimised testing for coronavirus. The dashboard can also contain community infection in various post-lockdown scenarios. The dashboard provides different epidemiological scenario-specific...

Bhubaneswar: Top bureaucrat and 5T Secretary VK Pandian visited Friday COVID-19 hospitals in Rayagada, Ganjam and Gajapati districts. He was accompanied by Development Commissioner Suresh Mahapatra. The 5T secretary was checking the facilities available at the hospital. Pandian, during his visit to the COVID-19 hospital...

Chhatrapur: Ganjam District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange and his associates lead by example. They ‘practice what they preach’. Kulange and his colleagues are now involved in containing the coronavirus threat which has grown in alarming proportions in the district. However, for the safety of their...

Manila: The global economy could suffer between $5.8 trillion and $8.8 trillion in losses -- equivalent to 6.4 per cent to 9.7 per cent of the global GDP -- due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report Friday. The...