Coronavirus

Jajpur: The district police have launched home delivery of medicines to keep people indoors during the COVID lockdown. In Twitter posts on Sunday, SP (Jajpur) Rahul PR said the home delivery...

Bhubaneswar: The Union Finance Ministry has released Rs 8,923.80 crore to 25 states including Odisha for providing grants to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Of...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJD leader and Bhandaripokhari MLA Prafulla Kumar Samal has tested positive for COVID-19. Samal, who is now undergoing treatment at SUM COVID Hospital, had undergone the test on...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha soared to 5,34,842 on Sunday with 10,635 new cases in the last 24 hours. Among the new cases, 6012 are quarantine and 4623...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 death toll in Odisha went up to 2180 on Sunday with 19 patients from 15 districts succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. Among the...

London: Researchers in Netherlands are working on bees which will be able to smell and detect samples infected with COVID-19. This will reduce waiting time to just seconds. Scientists at...

New Delhi: Despite advice from several quarters, including America’s top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci and Indian Medical Association (IMA), the Union government has refrained from imposing a nationwide lockdown...

Bhubaneswar: A total of 7,664 COVID patients recovered from the virus in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries in the state to 4,39,322. Like on Friday,...

Bhubaneswar: The daily COVID-19 caseload in the state capital crossed 1000 for the fifth consecutive day with 1034 new cases being reported in the last 24 hours on Saturday. Of...

Cuttack: Taking note of the rising trend in coronavirus cases in Cuttack district, the state government has decided to add 100 beds in the COVID hospital at SCB Medical College...