Coronavirus

Sergarh:  With 228 migrant workers from Surat expected to reach Ganjam district Wednesday night, the district administration has been taking necessary steps for their quarantine. Ganjam administration has opened a quarantine facility in Sergarh Adarsha School for the returnees. The centre has a capacity of...

Bhubaneswar: Senior IAS officers appointed as COVID observers for various districts have been given the task of opening up of economic activities halted due to the lockdown. The senior officers have been instructed to take necessary steps for resuming the economic activities in the districts...

Bolangir: Bolangir police Wednesday arrested three persons for spreading fake news pertaining to coronavirus on social media. The arrested men have been identified as Satyananda Bhoi (30), Babul Mahakur (23) and Anoda Mahakur (27). According to cops, the three used to peddle fake news by...

Ratnagiri: Jajpur district administration Wednesday collected swab samples of 146 West Bengal returnees who are living in 26 panchayats under Bari block in the district. The district administration, with the help of a medical team, had arranged four centres in the block to collect the...

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh): A team of medical and police personnel was attacked by a group of unruly persons Wednesday evening when it went to quarantine a family of coronavirus positive person in Bajaria area of Kanpur. Four persons were arrested, who would be booked under...

New Delhi: Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people, who are stranded in different parts of the country, were Wednesday allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions. In an order, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said buses shall be used for transport...

Panna (MP): A 19-year-old labourer allegedly committed suicide at a quarantine facility in Amaanganj town of Madhya Pradesh’s Panna district, police said Wednesday. The deceased and five other labourers had travelled to the town last week, when local authorities put them in a quarantine facility...

Bhadrak: Outlets dealing with construction materials under Bhadrak Municipality area have been allowed to remain open from 6:00am to 6:00pm, district collector Gyana Das Wednesday said. Das further added that the shops only with valid trade licences issued by Bhadrak Municipality authority will be allowed...

Bangalore: Around 3,000 foreign nationals had left Bangalore in 22 flights to 17 overseas destinations amid the lockdown, extended to contain the coronavirus spread in Karnataka, the airport operator said, here Wednesday. "We facilitated safe transit of around 3,000 foreign nationals in 22 flights to...

Bhubaneswar: The School and Mass Education department will conduct the remaining part of the Plus-II examinations post lockdown, Odisha School and Mass Education minister Samir Dash Wednesday said. The minister clarified that the Plus II examinations 2020 in arts, science and commerce streams will be...