Virus Scare

Cuttack: Amid apprehensions over a possible second wave of COVID-19 with the onset of winter, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has banned marriage processions in the Silver City and limited attendance...

New Delhi: India reported 29,164 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Tuesday. The daily case count has dropped to under 30,000...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the winter session of the Odisha Assembly scheduled to begin on November 20, the three-day COVID-19 test for all the MLAs, Assembly Secretariat employees and media persons...

Bhubaneswar: KIMS Hospital here on Monday started a 'Post-Covid Mother & Child Clinic'. This clinic will have a senior obstetrician and paediatrician, who will look after the mother and child...

London: World Health Organization (WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday warned that a vaccine will not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic and that it "will complement the other...

New Delhi: There will not be another lockdown in Delhi despite an increase in COVID-19 cases. State Health Minister Satyendar Jain claimed that the third wave of COVID-19 had already...

London: With the world inching nearer to launching a COVID-19 vaccine, there is increasing concern over anti-vaccine disinformation on social media. UK's Labour Party has demanded social media firms to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha saw another 1297 COVID patients getting cured of the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery tally to 299159 on Monday. According to the Health and...

There’s more good news on the COVID-19 vaccine front. A week after Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine candidate offers 90 per cent protection, Moderna announced that its shots, too,...

Bhubaneswar: Nonagenarian Baidyanath Parida and his 88-year-old wife Shakuntala were discharged from SUM COVID Hospital, where they were undergoing treatment for COVID-19, on Monday. Residents of the city, they were...