Virus Scare

New Delhi: The chief of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Shekhar C Mande, on Tuesday confirmed that the airborne transmission of coronavirus is a “distinct possibility” and said...

Cuttack: The Millennium City saw 32 more people testing positive for COVID-19, which pushed the affected tally to 398 on Tuesday. These are among the 84 new COVID-19 cases reported...

Moscow: A top Russian minister has claimed that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the country’s Defence Ministry has completed Phase 2 trials and it was ready for use for domestic...

London: Scientists all over the world have been hard at work to develop a vaccine that has the potential to meet the threat posed by the coronavirus. The initial success...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Bhubaneswar rose to 1,252 on Tuesday with overnight addition of 21 positive cases. Of these new patients, 16 are in quarantine and five are local...

Keonjhar: Out of eight fresh COVID-19 positive cases reported from the north Odisha district of Keonjhar in the last 24 hours, seven are local contact cases. As informed by the...

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration launched convalescent plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patients on Tuesday. In the first phase, six blood plasma units were brought from a plasma bank set...

Sambalpur: In view of the rising cases of COVID-19, the Sambalpur district administration on Tuesday declared a 10-day shutdown with effect from Wednesday. Sambalpur Collector Shubham Saxsena said the shutdown...

Thiruvananthapuram: Two candidates who attended Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) entrance examination and a parent of another candidate have tested positive for COVID-19, reported Livemint on Tuesday.The students appeared for...

Baripada: The number of COVID-19 cases in Mayurbhanj district touched 471 on Tuesday with three fresh cases being reported in the last 24 hours. Of the new cases, two are...