Virus Scare

Bhadrak: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha's Bhadrak district touched 1841 on Thursday with the overnight addition of 107 positive cases. According to the district administration, 96 of the new patients...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday asked the puja committees in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar to seek permission from the local authorities for celebrating Ganesh Puja....

Balipatna: In view of rising COVID-19 cases, sarpanchs of three-gram panchayats under the Balipatna block in Khurda district have declared four-day shutdown, beginning 2 pm on Thursday. Majhihara, Bhakarsahi, and...

Malkangiri: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha’s Malkangiri district touched 1531 on Thursday with 56 new positive cases. According to the district administration, 54 are local contact cases. The remaining two...

Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has penalised a private medical facility which had allegedly refused to admit a COVID-19 patient without an advance of ₹3 lakh. The...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 death toll in Odisha touched 380 on Thursday with eight more patients succumbing to the virus in the last 24 hours. The new fatalities included four in...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha rose to 70,020 on Friday with the overnight addition of 2,898 positive cases. This was the second highest 24-hour spike in cases reported in...

New Delhi: India reported the highest single-day peak in COVID-19 cases so far with 69,500 people testing positive on Wednesday, pushing the country's tally past 27.5 lakh to stand at 27,67,274....

New Delhi: The phase III trials of the Oxford vaccine for COVID-19 are likely to start this week in India. According to a report in India Today TV, the trials...

Berhampur: Ganjam district administration on Thursday started screening health of those who have recovered from COVID-19 to identify post-COVID health issues. The health team also encouraged people who are completely...