Coronavirus

New Delhi: As many as 80 doctors at Saroj Hospital here have tested COVID-19 positive so far. Besides, a senior surgeon at the hospital has succumbed to the disease Of...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha seeing an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases, 26 districts are now tagged as red zone (having more than 1000 actives cases). According to the Health and Family...

Mumbai: Instagram has deleted Kangana Ranaut’s post that announced she had tested positive for COVID-19 and called it “small time flu”, the actress revealed in a social media post on...

New Delhi: Wearing face masks may become seasonal when respiratory illnesses are more prevalent, said US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, IANS reported quoting CNBC. In an interview with NBC’s...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the daily COVID-19 caseload remained over 10,000 for the fifth consecutive day on Monday, Odisha saw a slight dip in the test positivity rate (TPR) in the...

New Delhi: COVID-19 vaccines in India, including the private sector, are one of the highest in the world. Besides, it is totally free in most of the countries, News18 reported...

New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) head of medicine department, Shadaab Khan (58), Faculty of Law dean, Shakil Ahmed Samdani (59) and noted Sanskrit scholar Khalid Bin Yusuf (60) passed...

New Delhi: Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated using coronaviruses as biological weapons in 2015, five years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, according to media reports referring to documents...

Baripada: The authorities of the sub-jail at Udala in Mayurbhanj district sanitized the entire prison premises on Monday, a day after 21 under-trial prisoners tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday....

Berhampur: Another journalist from Odisha succumbed to COVID-19 on Monday. The deceased, Kishore Chandra Dash (61),  was working as a correspondent for the vernacular daily ‘Samaja’ and based at Polsara...