Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: With the Centre allowing movement of migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists and students stranded due to the lockdown, the Odisha government has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for sending persons stuck in the state to their home states by road or rail. In a...

Bhadrak: Former international cricket player VVS Laxman Saturday took to Twitter to heap praise on Chhayarani Sahu of Bhadrak. Chhayarani is a farmer who recently distributed her produce among the needy in her locality during the ongoing lockdown. The cricketer wrote, "Chhayarani Sahu, a farmer...

Beijing: Medical staff treating COVID-19-infected patients found that 42.8 per cent experienced serious skin injury related to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, goggles, face shields, and protective gowns, according to a study. The study, published in the journal Advances in Wound...

Hyderabad: It's more than 2 months since COVID-19 cases surfaced in India, and despite constant dissemination of information about the virus, fears about the medical condition continue among lay persons, leading many to take extreme steps. In fact, it's not just the fear of Covid-19...

Bhubaneswar: Seven more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Jajpur district Saturday, taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in Odisha to 156. All the infected persons with travel history to Kolkata and are asymptomatic. All have been kept in quarantine to prevent further spread of...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a fertilizer factory completion ceremony, state media reported Saturday, his first public appearance after 20 days of absence that sparked rumours about his health. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that Kim cut the tape...

New York: Despite concerns expressed by some experts, common high blood pressure drugs did not increase the risk of contracting COVID-19 or of developing severe disease in a new study of 12,594 patients. Published online in the New England Journal of Medicine journal, the study...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has warned action against the private hospitals for not providing critical services to non-COVID patients, said the state Health Department. "It has come to the notice that some hospitals in the private sector are hesitating in providing critical services such as...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population is charting out plans to ease the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in a bid to gradually restart the stalled economy, according to a media report. If the recommendations of the Ministry are...

New York: An Indian-origin team of researchers in the US has claimed that people with cancer who develop coronavirus (COVID-19) are much more likely to die from the disease than those without cancer. The mortality rate for COVID-19 in the US is 5.8 per cent,...