Coronavirus

New Delhi: With 2,958 new cases and 126 new fatalities, India's coronavirus count Wednesday climbed to 49,391, said the Health Ministry. In a morning update, the Health Ministry said that of the total number 33,514 are active cases, and 1,694 fatalities have been reported so...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has recorded its second COVID-19 death with the demise of a 77-year-old who was admitted to Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Bhubaneswar with complaints of respiratory distress. This was informed by the State Health and Family Welfare Department. According to H&FW Department...

Bhubaneswar: Taking the total number of COVID-19 cases to 177 in Odisha, one more person tested positive Wednesday morning , informed Information and Public Relations (I&PR) department. The I&PR department of the state government released his travel history. According to I &PR department, the patient...

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced 252 million Canadian dollars (US $179 million) to the agri-food sector to help protect farmers and food processors against the COVID-19 pandemic. The money can be used to buy personal protective equipment for workers, adapt to health protocols...

The Hague: Mink have contracted coronavirus, adding to the list of animals known to be at risk of catching the virus. Mink at two fur farms in the Netherlands tested positive for COVID-19 a week ago, the BBC reported. And last month, it was revealed...

New Delhi: To mitigate the economic fallout of Covid-19, full service carrier Vistara Tuesday instituted a compulsory "no-pay" leave for a section of its employees and reduced the monthly base flying allowance for pilots during May and June. These leaves without pay range from one...

Washington: The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 1,201,337 as of 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the death toll from the disease in the country hit 70,646,...

Washington: Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), made the comments in an interview with National Geographic....

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the MSME sector has received a body blow from the coronavirus pandemic, around 500 rural entrepreneurs under Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), a sub-scheme of National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), are manufacturing masks for frontline warriors of COVID-19. Fifty-one entrepreneurs...

Jaipur: Family fights over electronic gadgets, like laptops, computers and mobile phones, have become common during lockdown. The work from home (WFH) culture has forced parents to depend heavily on gadgets. Children on the other hand are turning to these electronic gadgets for online classes...