Virus Scare

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is effective against the UK variant of the virus.  Taking to Twitter, Bharat Biotech said "Covaxin effectively neutralises UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 reducing the possibility...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 138 new COVID-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours. Of the new cases detected in 24 districts, 81 are from quarantine and 57 are local contacts. Cuttack...

Nuapada: Barely three days after he was administered COVID-19 vaccine, 27-year-old Nanikaram Keut died at VIMSAR in Burla on Tuesday. The health department though confirmed that vaccination is not the...

New Delhi: India will be sending 5,00,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines made in India to Afghanistan soon. Tahir Qadiry, Afghanistan's Charge d'Affaires, said in a tweet, "In the continuation of...

New Delhi: The turnout for vaccination in the first week was as low as 22 per cent in some states amid apprehensions about the vaccine. This, however, has considerably improved...

Bhubaneswar: Five districts of Odisha reported two-digit recovery figure of COVID-19 as 143 patients got around from the disease and were discharged from hospitals on Tuesday. Of the day's recoveries,...

Geneva: The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide is expected to reach 100 million within this week, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday....

Geneva: There is no need to prioritise the vaccination of the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo planned for July since there are not enough doses to vaccinate...

New Delhi: With 1,77,090 vaccinations recorded till 8 am on Tuesday, Odisha is ranked number 2 in the number of beneficiaries getting the vaccine across the country. Notably, the state...

Bhubaneswar: The vaccination of over 3.5 lakh health workers against COVID-19 in Odisha is scheduled to be completed on February 10 and the immunization process of frontline warriors will begin...