Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Around 5.15 per cent of the residents living under the limits of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has already developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. BMC Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary told...

New Delhi: A popular highway dhaba owned by Bollywood actor Dharmendra and another restaurant in Haryana’s Murthal have been sealed after 75 employees were found infected with coronavirus, an official...

Bhubaneswar: The number of BJD leaders in Odisha afflicted with COVID-19 has further gone up with Nabarangpur MP Ramesh Chandra Majhi testing positive for the virus. In a message on...

Rourkela:  The Outpatient Department (OPD) of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) was closed for two days from Friday after two doctors tested positive for COVID-19. The services...

Bhubaneswar: COVID-19 toll in Odisha rose to 531 on Friday with another nine patients succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours. Two deaths each have been reported from...

Bhubaneswar:  The COVID-19 caseload in Odisha went up to 1,16,678 on Friday with 3,267 new cases reported overnight from all 30 districts. Of the new cases, 1,961 were reported from...

Toronto: Canada's head of public health agency has advised people on safe sex practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Public Health Officer Teresa Tam stated while “sexual health is an...

Bhubaneswar: The BJD MLA from Basudevpur, Bishnubrata Routray, has tested positive for COVID-19. Routray informed this in a Facebook post. The legislator, who is the son of senior BJD leader and...

Pune: The Ministry of Defence notified that the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology in Pune has developed a herbal-based immunity-boosting room freshener designed to contain the spread of COVID-19. The...

Can the plastic waste from discarded PPE (personal protective equipment) kits, masks and disposable testing equipment be recycled and gainfully used? Well, four Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)...