Virus Scare

Sundargarh: A day after a spike of 52 in COVID-19 cases, the affected tally in Sundargarh district touched 740 with 15 more people testing positive for the virus in the...

Washington: Moderna Inc on Tuesday announced that its experimental vaccine for COVID-19 was found to be safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 volunteers in the first phase of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha saw three COVID-19 patients succumbing to the virus while another two died of other health complications on Wednesday. The Health Department sources said that a 65-year-old man of...

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of soaring coronavirus cases in Ganjam district, the Odisha government has deputed as many as five OAS (Odisha Administrative Service) officers and 47 ORS (Odisha Revenue...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 tally in Odisha touched 14898 on Wednesday with 618 new cases being reported from 22 districts in the last 24 hours. Among the new cases, 411 have...

Phulbani: The Kandhamal administration has announced a four-day shutdown in Phulbani Municipality and Baliguda NAC areas from July 17 as a precautionary measure in view of rising COVID-19 cases. Informing...

Rourkela: To fight COVID-19, Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) established a 780-bed COVID Care Centre here. The RMC also formed one dedicated Covid Registration Centre in the Multi Purpose Building premises at...

Kendrapara: A female health workers’ team was in for a rude shock at Patrapur village under Aul block of Kendrapara district when a youth attacked them on Tuesday. The team...

Mumbai: Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty have joined hands with Aslam Shaikh, Cabinet Minister for Textiles, Port, Fisheries & Guardian-Mumbai City to feed the pandemic affected families of Mumbai's...

Bhubaneswar: Amid spiralling COVID-19 cases in Ganjam, the Odisha government on Tuesday posted 130 doctors to the worst-hit district. The notification issued by the Health and Family Welfare Department said...