Virus Scare

When there was a deluge of coronavirus related messages on social media in the early months of the pandemic, a video message recorded in early May, by a Nobel Prize-winning...

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has slapped closure notice on two hotels at Kharvela Nagar in the Odisha capital on Tuesday. These two hotels behind the BDA office were...

Berhampur: The Ganjam administration has restricted entry of public to all government offices till July 31. Though the tweet gives no reasons for this decision, sources said that several officials...

Geneva: As COVID-19 cases crossed 13 million globally, the World Health Organization's (WHO) head Tedros Ghebreyesus on Tuesday warned that a return to the 'old normal' is not possible for...

Being infected with COVID-19 once and recovering thereafter does not make a person immune to the virus again. This is because the natural immunity of those infected to the virus...

Bhubaneswar: A record number of 609 COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease in Odisha on Tuesday. The day's recovered patients included 268 from Ganjam district, 135 from Sundargarh, 37 from...

Sundargarh: The weekly market at Rajgangpur in Odisha's Sundargarh district will remain closed from Tuesday (July 14) till further orders. "A large number of people are gathering at the weekly...

New Delhi: Upon learning that BJP's J&K unit president Ravinder Raina had tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, Union Minister Jitendra Singh and BJP National General Secretary Ram Madhav have...

Bhubaneswar: Plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 patients will begin in three hospitals of Odisha from Wednesday. This was revealed during a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday directed the officials to ensure proper treatment to COVID-19 patients. Presiding a high-level meeting via video conferencing, the chief minister directed the district...