Virus Scare

Singapore: A nurse has been suspended from service for having sex with a COVID-19 patient in a hospital toilet in Indonesia. The nurse had removed his PPE suit before becoming...

New Delhi: The Indian government has further extended travel and visa restrictions to and from India for another month due to the COVID-19 situation. The Director General of Civil Aviation...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 328 patients recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in Odisha on Wednesday. Of  the day's recoveries, 52 were from Khurda, 32 from Sambalpur, 23...

Hong Kong: The real scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan may actually have been about 10 times more than what was reported, China's health study said. A serological survey...

New Delhi: Male patients account for 70 per cent of the total number of COVID-19 deaths in India so far, the Union Health Ministry has revealed. Data available with the...

Bhubaneswar: In a latest update on UK strain of COVID-19, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation( BMC) on Wednesday said of the 62 UK returnees who have come to areas under the...

Cuttack: The village in Cuttack district, which was declared containment zone recently, has reported 18 more COVID-19 positive cases. According to official sources, 363 villagers of Kakudia village under Narsinghpur...

London: United Kingdom, which is battling the highly contagious variant of the virus, on Wednesday became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. "The...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha surged to 3,29,306 on Wednesday with an overnight addition of 305 cases. Of the new cases reported from 28 districts, 174 are from...

New Delhi: The government extended the flight suspension to and from the United Kingdom till January 7 in view of the new highly contagious strain of the coronavirus. “Decision has...