Virus Scare

Balasore: The swab samples being carried in a bus for COVID-19 test were destroyed as the vehicle met an accident with a truck in the district on Friday. According to...

New Delhi: Going by the results from the early-stage clinical trials of Sputnik, the Russia registered world's first COVID-19 vaccine, there is hope. The trials show that formulations of a...

Kharagpur: Over 10,000 students had left the IIT Kharagpur campus since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in India in March. But there were some students who stayed put and refused...

Geneva: Since none of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a "clear signal" of efficacy at the level of at least 50% sought by the...

Bhubaneswar: Around 5.15 per cent of the residents living under the limits of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has already developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. BMC Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary told...

New Delhi: A popular highway dhaba owned by Bollywood actor Dharmendra and another restaurant in Haryana’s Murthal have been sealed after 75 employees were found infected with coronavirus, an official...

Bhubaneswar: The number of BJD leaders in Odisha afflicted with COVID-19 has further gone up with Nabarangpur MP Ramesh Chandra Majhi testing positive for the virus. In a message on...

Rourkela:  The Outpatient Department (OPD) of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) was closed for two days from Friday after two doctors tested positive for COVID-19. The services...

Bhubaneswar: COVID-19 toll in Odisha rose to 531 on Friday with another nine patients succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours. Two deaths each have been reported from...

Bhubaneswar:  The COVID-19 caseload in Odisha went up to 1,16,678 on Friday with 3,267 new cases reported overnight from all 30 districts. Of the new cases, 1,961 were reported from...