COVID-19

New Delhi: There is no justification to keep schools closed now even if new waves of COVID-19 pandemic keep hitting us, according to World Bank’s Global Education Director Jaime Saavedra....

London: Instances of COVID-19 patients getting re-infected have not been uncommon since the global pandemic broke two years ago. The coronavirus has seen multiple mutations with the Delta variant proving...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday with 11,177 people, including 1,016 in the 0-18 age group, testing positive for the virus...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 graph showed an upward trend as the country reported 2.71 lakh fresh cases with 314 fatalities in the last 24 hours on Sunday, according to the...

Bhubaneswar: Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and are eligible for the precautionary dose can take the vaccine shot after three months, informed Dr Jayanta Kumar Panda, advisor to the...

New Delhi: Polish scientists said they have discovered a gene that more than doubles the risk of falling severely ill or even dying from Covid-19, the Bloomberg reported. The Medical...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 virus becomes largely harmless and incapable of infecting us within 20 minutes of being airborne, The Guardian reports. Researchers at the University of Bristol's Aerosol Research...

New Delhi: Cannabis compounds can prevent COVID-19 infection, US researchers have found. The study was published in the Journal of Natural Products. A team from Oregon State University identified two...

New Delhi: Planning to buy life insurance? If you had COVID-19, you have to wait for up to three months to do so. Under a new rule, people who have...

Cuttack: The SCB Medical College & Hospital here is fully prepared to deal with the surge in COVID-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, said Prof Dateswar Hota, Dean &...