Coronavirus

New Delhi: Over 20 celebrities, including Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Mahesh Bhatt and Ratna Pathak Shah, joined hands to urge "Delhi Police to stop abusing the lockdown" and put an "end to the witch-hunt" against "students and activists protesting against CAA". The artists released the...

Dehradun/Aligarh: A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of a migrant worker at a relief camp in Uttarakhand’s Roorkee, an official said Sunday. The victim’s family in Aligarh alleged that Netrapal (42) died as he had stopped eating because he was given barely...

Bhubaneswar: The government of Odisha Sunday made it mandatory for people returning to the state to register themselves at panchayat level in a fresh new move to arrest the spread of COVID-19. Addressing the state through a video message, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that...

Bhubaneswar: With the Odisha capital being identified as one of the coronavirus hotspots in the country, the state government has stepped up its measures to fight the disease by adopting rapid and pool testing methods to detect COVID-19 cases, Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba...

According to experts, a slow increase in COVID-19 infections is not only, particularly in terms of critical cases, is not just limited to India but the entire SAARC region. Although the low figures are clearly a result of low testing rates, experts are stressing to...

Dhenkanal: Narishakti Association members of Simulia in Dhenkanal district Sunday felicitated officials who are working tirelessly to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the district. Simulia villagers and members of the association welcomed the doctors, police personnel, ASHA workers, anganwadi workers, swachha sathi members and...

Berhampur: Ganjam District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange said Sunday that the administration will relax lockdown restrictions for the people to some extent April 20 onwards. The lockdown in the district had first been imposed March 25 before being extended to May 3 to prevent the...

London: The largest trial of drug to cure the pandemic coronavirus has started in the United Kingdom (UK). The trial will be carried out on 5,000 patients in 165 state-run hospitals in the UK. Researchers are hoping that within a few weeks some positive news...

Bhadrak: The ‘containment zone’ restrictions clamped at Charampa and Erein localities here to prevent the spread of the pandemic coronavirus were withdrawn Sunday. However, lockdown guidelines will continue to be in force, informed District Collector Gyana Ranjan Das. The first coronavirus positive case in this...

Talcher: There have been innumerable contributions made to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund in Odisha to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Corporates, actors, business houses have come forwarded and contributed heavily to join the fight against the deadly virus. There have been plenty of others who...