Virus Scare

New Delhi: Drawing a witty parallel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbed the people vaccinated against COVID-19 as ‘Bahubali”. “Vaccine is given in the ‘bahu’ (arms) and those who take it...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha on Monday reported a marginal fall in daily COVID-19 toll with 58 patients succumbing in the past 24 hours. Incidentally, the state has been reporting more than 60...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 1648 more COVID-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, which took the active cases tally to 20387 on Monday. With the new infections detected from 69812...

Stepping out of home without a mask can be perilous as it exposes you to the deadly coronavirus, which remains a menace in several countries almost a year and a...

Bhubaneswar: The Health Department has blamed “hidden cases” for the spread of COVID-19 in Odisha. “Some people with COVID-19 symptoms are not willing to undergo tests. Instead, they buy medicines...

Bhubaneswar: Pregnant women in the Odisha capital can take COVID vaccine (Covaxin) at all government UPHCs/UCHCs and Capital Hospital from July 21. They will be given the jab every Wednesday...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported another 2,215 COVID-19 cases among 77,519 samples tested in the last 24 hours on Saturday. The Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 2.85 per cent. Khurda district...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday declared an apartment at Nayapalli here as a micro containment zone following detection of several COVID-19 positive cases. In a notification, BMC...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID cases continued to rise in the capital city with 372 people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours against 311 infections on Friday. The city...

Bhubaneswar: Despite the declining COVID graph, a Health Department official warned on Saturday that the deadly virus continues to lurk in the community. “It is observed that there is a decline...