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Odisha’s tryst with 10 cyclones in two decades

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has encountered 10 cyclones, including the approaching Jawad, in a span of 22 years and the frequency of such natural disasters is only on the rise, official records of State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) showed. Memories of the 1999 super cyclone is still...

Cyclone Jawad likely to weaken ahead of reaching Puri coast

Bhubaneswar: The cyclonic storm ‘Jawad’ formed over west-central Bay of Bengal moved slightly northwards with a speed of 4 km/ph during the last six hours and lays centred at about 230 kilometre south-east of Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, 410 kilometre south-southwest of Puri and 490...

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Vaccine upgrade on cards to fight Omicron: BioNTech CEO

Frankfurt: BioNTech should be able to adapt its coronavirus vaccine relatively quickly in response to the Omicron variant. The next few weeks will show how urgently an upgrade is needed BioNtech CEO Ugur Sahin was quoted as saying by Reuters, Friday. Ugur Sahin said people...

10 Omicron suspects admitted to hospital in Delhi

New Delhi: A total of 10 persons suspected to be infected with Omicron Covid variant have been admitted to Delhi's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital (LNJP). Talking to IANS, Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, LNJP Hospital, which has been designated for the Omicron infection treatment,...

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Cyclone Jawad: Lopar intensifies into depression

Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: The well-marked low pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression and is likely to take the form of a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours and reach Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast on December 4, the IMD has said...

Two cases of Omicron variant detected in India

New Delhi: Two cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected in Karnataka, the Union government said Thursday while asking people not to panic but follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated without delay. Both the patients are men aged 66 years and...

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Two cases of Omicron in India

Two cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected in Karnataka, the Union government said on Thursday while asking people not to panic but follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated without delay. Both the patients are men aged 66 years and 46...

Omicron may soon outrun Delta cases in South Africa

New Delhi: The newly detected super mutant Omicron variant is most likely to outcompete Covid infections caused by Delta strain in South Africa, claim the country's health officials. Omicron was first detected in a sample taken November 8 in Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province,...

 

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