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Bhubaneswar: Soon after the Centre asked the states to declare black fungus as an epidemic, the Odisha government issued a notice in this regard by including it as a notifiable disease...

Patna: Amid concerns over rising cases of Mucormycosis or black fungus in COVID-19 recovered patients, four cases of  a deadlier ‘white fungus’ have been reported in Patna, Bihar. One of...

Kolkata: After skipping the previous meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the COVID-19 situation, Mamata Banerjee did attend Thursday’s virtual session. At the end of it, though,...

Bhubaneswar: With the south-west monsoon set to enter the South Andaman Sea & adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours, there will be a change in weather...

New Delhi: A self-use Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19 made by Pune-based startup MyLab Discovery Solutions has been approved in India. Named CoviSelf, the test kit will have testing...

Top expert bodies such as the Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and others have all pointed out that the risk of COVID-19 is very high in poorly ventilated...

Bhubaneswar: A low-pressure area is most likely to form over the North Andaman Sea and its nearby area of the east-central Bay of Bengal on May 22. Thereafter, the system...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday directed the departments concerned to take preemptive measures against cyclonic storm Yaas, which the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted is going to form over the...

New Delhi: In a heartening trend amid the COVID-19 gloom, the country logged 3,69,077 recoveries on Thursday, which far exceeded the new infections (2,76,110) reported in the last 24 hours....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered the highest single-day COVID toll of 25 on Thursday. With the 25 new deaths, Odisha's total toll climbed to 2403. Among the deaths reported from 14 districts,...