Coronavirus

Pune: The wait for a home-based rapid COVID-19 testing kit is finally over. India’s first indigenous easy-to-use kit, that detects the coronavirus within 15 minutes, has been commercially launched. It will...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is making all-out efforts to procure COVID vaccines despite failure to rope in manufacturers in India and abroad, said CBK Mohanty, Director Medical Education and Training (DMET)...

Bhubaneswar: Founder-cum-chairman of SAI International Education Group Bijaya Kumar Sahoo succumbed to post-COVID complications at a private hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday. He was 58. According to sources, the chartered...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is likely to see a further improvement in the COVID-19 pandemic situation in two weeks, said Bhubaneswar-based Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) director Ajay Parida said on Thursday....

New Delhi: The government aims to boost domestic vaccine production by booking 30 crore doses of Hyderabad-based Biological-E’s Covid jabs. The Health Ministry will make an advance payment of Rs...

New Delhi: Covishield-maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has sought indemnity from liability or legal protection from any claims linked any severe side effects from the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. Notably,...

Bhubaneswar: While the daily positivity rate has dropped to 12 per cent with over 8000 new COVID-19 cases being reported for the last three consecutive days, the rising number of...

Bhubaneswar: The test positivity rate (TPR) in Odisha remained at 12.59 per cent for the second consecutive day on Thursday despite an increase in the number of tests. The state...

Rourkela: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday dedicated a 100-bed COVID care facility at Rourkela Steel Plant. The Ispat Nidaan Kendra will be upgraded to 500 beds in due course....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha capital reported 918 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which took the active cases tally to 10,988 on Wednesday. Among the new cases, 169 are...