Coronavirus

Puri: In light of coronavirus outbreak in the state, Puri district administration Saturday started a disinfection drive to sanitise the Grand Road also known as Bada Danda. Ahead of auspicious Akshaya Tritiya, several employees of the district fire services personnel could be seen spraying a disinfectant...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after a video conference with the Chief Ministers of all Indian states earlier Saturday, decided to extend the national lockdown for two more weeks till April 30 in light of the rise in postive COVID-19 cases across the country.....

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that one of its reports had shown COVID-19 community transmission in India due to an error which has now been fixed. The Indian government has maintained that community transmission has not yet started in India. The WHO...

Kalahandi: An ambulance driver who shifted a COVID-19 patient to Cuttack from Dadpur village under Bhawanipatna tehsil of Kalahandi district has allegedly been ostracised by fellow villagers. The driver has been identified as Banamali Sethi, a resident of the same village. He has been denied entry...

New Delhi: India has requested the administration of US President Donald Trump to extend the H-1B and other visas of Indian citizens till the global coronavirus pandemic was not over. Official sources told IANS that New Delhi requested Washington after some news reports claimed that...

Sambalpur: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe are coming together to help each other. While the entire world is facing an unprecedented pandemic and governments leaving no stone unturned to stop its spread, here is the story of Sarojini Kalo...

India reported 40 Covid-19 deaths and 1035 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, the sharpest increase so far, while the number of infections crossed 7400 Saturday morning. The Union ministry of health data at 8am showed the country’s number of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday held video conferencing meet with the Chief Ministers of all the states, wearing a "cloth mask" on his face, to discuss the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) situation in the country. Prime Minister Modi told the Chief Ministers that he...

Gandhinagar: With 54 new positive cases of the coronavirus detected Saturday in the hotspots declared in major cities by the Gujarat government, the health authorities confirmed that the total number of Covid-19 has reached 432 in the state. They expressed satisfaction that the situation was...

Kabul: At least 20 employees of the Afghan Presidential Palace have tested positive for the novel coronavirus out of 517 samples examined, a media report said. Sources said that 10 groups of medics from the Public Health Ministry have begun taking samples from other officials...