Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Bhadrak district administration declared nine panchayats under Basudevpur block as containment zones after three more COVID-19 positive cases were detected from the block Wednesday. The district administration has also issued a notification regarding this. In the notification it is mentioned that 22 villages under the...

Bhawanipatna: To reach out to migrant workers and others in need, during the ongoing lockdown that has been extended till May 3, the postal department has stepped up its services in reaching out with food and essential commodities at the doorsteps of the needy people...

Deogarh: To arrest the rapid spread of COVID-19, Deogarh district administration is conducting health screening programmes for the past week. The total population of Deogarh district is over 52 lakh.  This door-to-door health screening will cover over 7744 villages and all the urban areas of...

New Delhi: Singer-composer-actor Himesh Reshammiya is a busy bee even during the COVID-19 lockdown. A lot of things have come to a standstill as people have been told to stay indoors for safety. Work might have slowed down for many, but Himesh is as busy...

Bhubaneswar: Three persons from Bhadrak district tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, taking the total number of such cases in Odisha to 82, officials said. The three fresh cases from Bhadrak, all males aged 40, 55 and 35, are from Basudevpur block of the district and...

New Delhi: A critical COVID-19 patient admitted to a private hospital here has shown signs of improvement and taken off ventilator support after he was administered plasma therapy, officials said Tuesday. The 49-year-old had tested positive for coronavirus on April 4 and the same day...

New Delhi: With 1383 new cases and 50 fatalities in 24 hours, the total tally of novel coronavirus cases in India reached to 19,984 Wednesday, health ministry said. In a morning update, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said, of the total cases at...

Paris: France, which plans to unwind some restriction measures from May 11, registered 531 more COVID-19 deaths Tuesday as hospitalisation-related figures pursue a slow decline. Hospitals and nursing homes numbers showed that combined deaths caused by the COVID-19 rose to 20,796, up from Monday's 20,265,...

We all want to have nutritious meals, but when work from home is taking most of your time--how do you manage? Well, these tips from a nutritionist can help. We have found ourselves in a unique long duration of work from home, saving our commute...

New Delhi: Facebook is working with eight independent third-party fact-checking entities, covering 11 Indian languages. It is doing so to identify misinformation around COVID-19, managing director, Ajit Mohan said. Working procedure Besides, the social media giant is also imparting training to local governments and emergency...