Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive cases went up to 311788 in Odisha on Thursday with 868 more patients reported overnight. Among the new cases, 499 are from quarantine centres and 369...

New York: Pfizer Inc PFE.N and BioNTech 22UAy.DE could get emergency US and European approval for their COVID-19 vaccine in December after final trial results showed a resounding 95 per...

London: Pharma major Pfizer on Wednesday reported that its COVID-19 vaccine is 95 per cent effective in phase 3 trials and would be applying for emergency US authorization within days....

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said pregnant women and people above 60 years along with health workers will be accorded priority in distribution of COVID-19 vaccine. Reviewing the...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 1303 patients recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals across the state on Wednesday. Of the day's recovered cases, 108 were from Cuttack, 103 from...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to shut the Tata COVID Hospital at Sitalapalli in Ganjam district. Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange in a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of...

London: The COVID-19 infection has affected over 55 million people and killed 1.3 million worldwide since the pandemic struck in March. Guess the total volume of coronavirus that has wreaked...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in the Odisha capital touched 30284 with 57 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The daily caseload in the city...

New Delhi: Indiscriminate use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) should be avoided as it does not reduce mortality in COVID-19 patients, the India Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on...

New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, approved the first-ever COVID-19 self-testing kit for home use that will provide results within 30 minutes. The single test use,...