Virus Scare

Vijnana Bharati, the elite science and technology wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has welcomed the government’s decision to increase the interval between two doses of Covishield from 6-8 weeks...

Bhubaneswar: Concerned over the alarming rise in COVID-19 positive cases in rural areas of Odisha, the state BJP on Friday submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik urging him...

From last year itself, doubts have been cast in several quarters over the official figures of COVID-19 death toll. Now, even the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that there’s...

New Delhi: A case of white fungus has been detected in a 70-year-old man who was earlier treated for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Mau. This is probably the first case...

New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has made another significant contribution in India’s fight against COVID-19. Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of...

New Delhi: Chemists in the country are annoyed. The government has not accepted their request to be treated as frontline workers for priority in vaccination. So now, they have threatened...

New Delhi: Five pharmaceutical companies have got the go-ahead to manufacture the anti-fungal drug Amphotericin B, used to treat mucormycosis or black fungus. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday said the number of COVID-19 positive cases as well as deaths have gone up in the second wave due to increased corona testing. Talking...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started a movement called Young Warrior. The movement entails engaging 5 million young people to lead action against COVID-19 with...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday revealed that around half of the country’s population does not wear a mask. Only 14 percent of the population wears the mask...