Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: As many as 126 inmates of various jails in Odisha were released on special parole for three months on May 15, DIG (Jail) Subhakant Mishra has informed. The DIG...

Rourkela:  Managing COVID-19 patients has become a formidable task in the rural pockets of the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district. The administration’s home isolation strategy and stigma attached to the disease only...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) revised its COVID-19 guidelines on Monday, making it mandatory for travellers arriving at Biju Patnaik International Airport to undergo the RT-PCR test. The BMC...

Balangir: Stray dogs feeding on half-burnt bodies of COVID patients at the Bijakhaman cremation is making for a ghastly sight not to say leaving the local residents disturbed. The pictures...

New Delhi: The country registered 281,386 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Health & Family Welfare Ministry informed on Monday. It was for the first time in...

New Delhi: Some clinicians and scientists have written to Principal Scientific Advisor K Vijay Raghavan cautioning against the “irrational and non-scientific use” of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 in the country....

Bhubaneswar: Seven employees of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) have tested positive for COVID-19. BMC sources said the seven infected staffers were engaged at Satya Nagar crematorium. One of them had...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will know the effect of the statewide lockdown against the pandemic in eight weeks, the Director of Public Health, Niranjan Mishra, told the media on Monday....

New Delhi: The first batch of anti-COVID oral drug 2-DG, developed by the DRDO, was released on Monday by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. The Drugs...

New Delhi: Eminent Indian virologist, Gagandeep Kang is skeptical about the Centre’s claim that it will get over 2 billion doses of vaccine from August to December. The production capacity...