Virus Scare

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Tuesday directed all states and UTs to keep a strict vigil on the COVID situation till July 31 and closely monitor case positivity, bed occupancy...

Bhubaneswar: Following a shortage in Covishield vaccines, no sessions have been planned for 11 districts in Odisha on Wednesday. The Health and Family Welfare department informed that the vaccination campaign...

Bhubaneswar: With the ongoing lockdown ending in another 30 hours, speculation is rife about Odisha easing the curbs and putting the pressure off livelihood sources. While chairing a review meeting...

New York: Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with COVID-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha lost another 40 people to COVID in the last 24 hours, which took to toll to 3970 on Tuesday. The state had reported 43 deaths on Monday. According...

  New Delhi: Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given Cipla approval to import Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for restricted emergency use in the country. Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine will be...

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal was discharged from AIIMS Delhi on Tuesday, ANI reported. The Minister was admitted to the hospital following post-COVID complications and was in ICU...

Jajpur: As part of its ongoing vaccination drive to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, the Odisha government has stepped up the vaccination of the tribals in remote and inaccessible...

New Delhi: A study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, has suggested that more people under 50 years of age lost their lives to COVID-19 infection...

Bhubaneswar: There will be no vaccination drive in Balasore, Kendrapada and Cuttack city on Tuesday. The Cuttack Municipal Corporation informed that vaccination in a limited capacity is only open for...