Virus Scare

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the US-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, is advising most people with active cases of COVID-19, to isolate for 10 days after...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday spoke to Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla over a video call and discussed the progress of COVID vaccine. Naveen expressed happiness...

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII), which has partnered with biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to manufacture the experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by University of Oxford, expects the vaccine to reach...

Berhampur: T Bijayalaxmi, a school headmistress in Purusottampur, who was due to retire on July 31 died on Tuesday. She was on door-to-door screening duty. She had a fever in...

Jeypore: The number of COVID-19 cases in Odisha's Koraput district rose to 354 on Wednesday with 15 more people testing positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. Among...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 death toll rose to 108 in Odisha on Wednesday with five more patients succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours. According to Health department, out...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha went up to 19,835 on Wednesday with the highest single-day spike of 1078 cases reported in the last 24 hours. Out of 1078...

New Delhi: An addition of 37,724 positive cases in the last 24 hours took India's COVID-19 tally to 1,92,915 on Wednesday. A total of 648 people lost their lives to...

Cuttack: The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) on Wednesday marked Parida Sahi, Shankarpur (ward no 37) as Containment Zone after new COVID-19 cases were detected from the area. The area lies...

Nuapada: A total of 11 more CRPF jawans tested COVID-19 positive here on Tuesday. The infected jawans were part of the 18-member contingent that returned from various states to join...