Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: Three UK returnees in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and the government has sent their samples to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune for genome...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 death toll in Odisha went up to 1868 on Tuesday with four patients succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. According to Health and Family...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Tuesday said there is no need to panic about the mutated COVID-19 strain. Allaying the apprehension of the people, Director, Public Health Niranjan Mishra said...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha went up to 3,29,001 on Tuesday with an overnight addition of 263 cases. Of the new cases reported from 26 districts, 151 are...

Moscow: Russia has admitted that it is currently the country with the third-highest number of COVID-19 deaths. Its death toll is more than three times of what was previously reported....

New Delhi: Six cases with the mutant strain of coronavirus, which was first reported in the United Kingdom, have been detected in India, the government said on Tuesday. All the...

New Delhi: The Central government on Monday extended COVID-19 guidelines till January 31, 2021. It also warned about the new highly infectious COVID-19 UK strain, and advised that strict surveillance...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar reported 22 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The tally in the capital city stood at 31,577 on Monday. Fresh cases have generally been on the...

Shanghai: A citizen journalist in China has been sent to jail for four years for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan. Zhang Zhan, a lawyer-turned-citizen journalist, had been...

New Delhi: The excessive use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rise in cases of gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection (STI). According to media reports, experts...