Virus Scare

Tensa (Sundargarh): Senior citizens inhabiting villages in the inaccessible terrains of Tensa in Odisha's Sundargarh district, were vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL). A total of...

New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday asked all states and the Union Territories (UTs) to guard against complacency in view of the drop in infection rate and regulate crowded places...

  New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that fully vaccinated people can still catch COVID-19. However, the risk is decreased significantly. According to WHO chief scientist, the...

Bhubaneswar: The state government will initiate special measures to further bring down daily COVID caseload and the test positivity rate in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, said Director...

New Delhi: It is rare but it happened. In the first documented case of a person being infected with two different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at the same time,...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID tally touched 4795 on Tuesday as 65 more patients were confirmed to have succumbed to the deadly disease in Odisha. Among the deceased, Khurda district has reported...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is among the five states that have contributed to 73.4 per cent of the country's total cases in the first two weeks of July. Kerala has more than...

Bhubaneswar: The test positivity rate (TPR) in Odisha dropped below 3 per cent and stood at 2.99 per cent on Wednesday with 2074 of 69287 samples testing positive for COVID...

New Delhi: The latest complication among recovered coronavirus patients is avascular necrosis (AVN) or osteonecrosis. At least three cases of AVN were reported in Mumbai’s PD Hinduja Hospital and Delhi’s...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the COVID-19 pandemic in Odisha, there will be no religious activities of Kaudias (Bol Bom devotees) during the Odia calendar month of Shravan this year. In...