Virus Scare

Balasore: Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy has directed the Balasore district administration to set up a 100-bed COVID Hospital on the premises of the district headquarters hospital. The new hospital will...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 50,979 COVID-19 tests were conducted in Odisha in the last 24 hours, the State Health & Family Welfare (H&FW) Department informed on Saturday. These included 7,607...

Rourkela: Rourkela alone has reported 60 of the 88 new COVID-19 cases in Odisha’s Sundargarh district that pushed the district’s tally to 5350 on Friday. The rest of the cases...

New Delhi: With pharma giant AstraZeneca pausing the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate's trials in other countries, the Serum Institute of India (SII) has been suspended by the Drugs Controller General...

Cuttack: As many as 264 COVID-19 positive cases were reported from different parts of the city here on Friday. According to Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), 54 were from institutional quarantine...

London: Two days after the worrying news of the clinical trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine candidate being halted, the drugmaker revealed that a participant had developed severe neurological symptoms. It...

Bhubaneswar: The state witnessed a new high in the fight against COVID-19 as 4,061 patients recovered from disease and were discharged from different hospitals in the state on Friday. Of...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released COVID-19 data on Friday according to which 60 per cent of daily new recoveries are being reported from five states...

Seoul/Pyongyang: If the US is to be believed, North Korean authorities have issued shoot-to-kill orders to prevent the novel coronavirus from entering its shores. North Korea has not reported a...

Bhubaneswar: Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare minister Ranendra Pratap Swain has tested positive for COVID-19. He is the second minister on Friday to test positive for the disease. Swain in...