Virus Scare

Rourkela: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday dedicated a 100-bed COVID care facility at Rourkela Steel Plant. The Ispat Nidaan Kendra will be upgraded to 500 beds in due course....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha capital reported 918 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which took the active cases tally to 10,988 on Wednesday. Among the new cases, 169 are...

Bhubaneswar: Former minister and senior BJD leader Bijayshree Routray passed away due to post COVID-19 complications here on Wednesday. He was 67. According to family sources, he breathed his last...

Bhubaneswar: An 82-year-old man with comorbidities became the first COVID-19 patient in Odisha to receive the antibody-drug cocktail authorised by the Centre. "The COVID-19 parameters of the patient are stable...

New Delhi: Reports are now coming in of COVID-19 patients having intestinal clots and gangrene. Nearly a dozen cases have been treated by physicians and surgeons across hospitals in Mumbai....

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday wrote to his counterparts seeking their cooperation to stand united in the nation's fight against COVID-19 and focus on vaccination to save...

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweeted a message for the government on the vaccine policy from his hospital bed where he is recuperating after testing positive for coronavirus. "Save...

Bhubaneswar: A US-based organisation has donated Rs 48.89 lakh to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to help Odisha fight the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Additional Chief Secretary Sanjeev...

Bhubaneswar: Acting on the apprehensions of the health experts about the possibility of the third wave of COVID-19 in India, the Odisha government has taken preemptive measures. Director, Public Health...

Bhubaneswar: Apollo Hospitals in the capital city have started antibody cocktail therapy for COVID-19 patients. The new therapy, which is a combination of Casirivimab and Imdevimab, was administered to an...