Virus Scare

New Delhi: The government will reward innovators and startups for strengthening ‘CoWIN’, a digitalised platform for the effective national rollout and scaling up of the COVID Vaccine Distribution System. The...

Cuttack: Padma Shri awardee social activist and tea seller D Prakash Rao was admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here after he tested positive for COVID-19. According to sources,...

Bhubaneswar: Information and Public Relations minister Raghunadnan Das on Friday flagged off seven 'Sachetanata Rath' (awareness chariots) on COVID-19 at Sanskruti Bhawan here. The vehicles will go around Balasore, Jajpur,...

New Delhi: With the Centre gearing up for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in the country, it has planned to conduct dry run in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat and Punjab...

Bhubaneswar: Three more persons succumbed to COVID-19 in Odisha in the last 24 hours taking the toll to 1,853 on Friday. Of the new deaths, one was reported from Bhubaneswar...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive tally in Odisha went up to 3,27,867 on Friday with 325 new cases reported overnight. Of the new cases reported from 24 districts, 187 are in...

London: Urging a fast rollout of vaccine to prevent deaths, the scientists have warned in a study that the mutated strain of coronavirus is 56 per cent more contagious than...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 324 patients recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals across the state on Thursday. Of the day's recoveries, 66 were from Sundargarh, 36 from Angul,...

Cuttack: The number of COVID-19 positive cases continued its single digit run in the city as 8 persons were affected by the disease in the last 24 hours. According to...

Bhubaneswar: Apprehending the spread of a mutated strain of SARs-CoV-2, the Odisha government on Thursday ordered the RTPCR test and genome sequencing of 43 persons who have returned to the...