Coronavirus

Malkangiri: The entire Malkangiri municipality was declared as a containment zone after 21 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the area on Friday, Malkangiri Collector Manish Agarwal tweeted. Moreover, eight...

Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL), which developed India’s first potential indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, has said that the first phase of testing has begun on 375 volunteers. The Hyderabad-based company...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday directed private hospitals to admit patients from COVID hotspot districts for treatment. In a statement, chief secretary Asit Tripathy said that the state government...

New Delhi: India registered a record single-day spike of 34,884 COVID-19 cases taking the country’s tally to 10,38,716 on Saturday, after having crossed a grim milestone of one million mark...

Malkangiri: The COVID-19 tally in Malkangiri district rose to 274 on Saturday with an overnight addition of eight new positive cases. Of the new cases, four were reported from Balimela...

Bhubaneswar: Three more persons succumbed to coronavirus in Odisha in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 86 on Saturday. Two of the deaths were reported from Ganjam district...

Bhubaneswar: The total number of COVID-19 cases in Odisha touched 16701 on Saturday as the state reported 591 new cases from 25 districts in the last 24 hours. Of the...

Bhubaneswar: Taking note of the COVID-19 situation in Odisha, the state government has extended the closure of special schools till August 31. This has been informed by the deputy secretary,...

Kandhamal: The Kandhamal district administration on Saturday announced shutdown in the areas under the jurisdiction of Phulbani Municipality and Baliguda Notified Area Council (NAC) till July 22. The shutdown has...

Jharsuguda: The district administration and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited, have signed a MoU on Friday to open a COVID Care Centre in the district....